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The syllabi, the textbooks and the curriculum design in elementary logic, reasoning, argumentation and critical thinking are all currently ill-conceived and ill-executed. In a certain historical perspective, which is only slightly oversimplified, the same fate has befallen logic as an academic discipline has befallen ethics. Ethics began in the ancient Greece and more generally in the classical antiquity as a study of different forms of excellence. These types of excellence were not only moral in our sense, but included sundry forms of social, military and intellectual superiority. As Adkins (1960, pp. 32–33) sums up the Homeric sense of the word, to be a good or virtuous man, that is,
to be agathos one must be brave, skillful, and successful in war and in peace; and one must possess the wealth and... the leisure which are at once the necessary conditions for the development of these skills and the natural reward of their successful employment.
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Hintikka, J. (1999). Is Logic the Key to All Good Reasoning?. In: Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery. Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9313-7_1
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