Thinking as a Science
A Practical Guide to Mental Discipline, Critical Reasoning, Clear Writing, and Intellectual Self-EducationBy Henry Hazlitt
Length5h 18m
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In *Thinking as a Science*, Henry Hazlitt presents disciplined thought as a practical, teachable activity rather than an innate gift reserved for specialists. Written in lucid, vigorous prose, the book examines habits that obstruct sound reasoning—intellectual passivity, unexamined assumptions, prejudice, and the surrender of judgment to authority—while advocating concentrated reading, careful observation, independent analysis, and systematic self-education. Its literary context lies between the older tradition of moral and philosophical essays on self-cultivation and the modern literature of practical psychology and popular education. Hazlitt's method is concrete and argumentative: he turns abstract reflections on thought into accessible exercises in intellectual conduct, making the volume both a manual and a defense of reasoned individualism. Hazlitt (1894–1993) was an American journalist, literary critic, editor, and economic writer whose formidable education was largely self-directed. His experience in newspapers and periodicals cultivated the concise style, argumentative clarity, and distrust of fashionable opinion evident here. Composed early in his career, the book reflects his enduring concern with how ordinary readers can acquire intellectual independence outside formal academic institutions. These interests later informed his influential economic writing, especially *Economics in One Lesson*. This book will reward readers seeking more than motivational advice: it offers a durable framework for improving judgment, reading intelligently, and resisting intellectual conformity. Students, writers, journalists, and independent learners will find Hazlitt's compact arguments both historically revealing and immediately useful. Its confident tone may reflect its period, but its central invitation—to make thinking deliberate, disciplined, and personal—remains compelling.
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GenrePhilosophy
Length5 hrs 18 mins
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Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity (Annotated)
7VI DEBATE AND CONVERSATION
2I THE NEGLECT OF THINKING
8VII THINKING AND READING
3II THINKING WITH METHOD
9VIII WRITING ONE’S THOUGHTS
4III A FEW CAUTIONS
10IX THINGS WORTH THINKING ABOUT
5IV CONCENTRATION
11X THINKING AS AN ART
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6V PREJUDICE AND UNCERTAINTY
12XI BOOKS ON THINKING
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