Wat is kritisch denken?

What is critical thinking? A research agenda for historians of the humanities How can do justice to complexities their subject while at same time contributing current debate about future humanities? This essay argues that a history thinking, focused on characteristics ‘critical thinker’, may meet both requirements. Drawing case studies from nineteenth century present, it shows thinking has taken variety forms, each which places different demands self. In most cases requires not only skills or virtues but also normative attitudes (identifications, dissociations) and certain ‘transformative capacity’. If such conceptual distinctions help understand what meant in past, they are equally applicable twenty-first century. article suggests enrich by showing tendency reduce set easily learnable fits uneasily into thinking. Moreover, if historical always been contested ideal, ask politics visions being supported suppressed today contemporary models