The university can foster a place where we can "think together" about difficult problems and practise what Fichte called the "exercise of critical judgment".
Fourth, one must also consider the quality of informational exchanges on SNS and the extent to which they promote a genuinely dialogical public sphere marked by the exercise of critical rationality.
The exercise of critical thinking, to evaluate if the sources are reliable.
These studies suggest that the disposition and habits of a mind are crucial in the exercise of critical thinking, and describe the trend of critical thinking as an inner motivation to solve problems and make decisions by thinking.
As informed by the imagination, architectural judgment issues in the exercise of taste a critical discrimination to which we attach aspirations of objectivity deployed to identify the "appropriate" in style, scale, or arrangement.
Finally, even in this overstrung environment, the free exercise of speech critical of the government -- punished brutally in neighboring states such as Egypt, Lybia, Syria, and Iran -- isn't simply protected; it's expected: Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurionceonce remarked that "for every two Jews, there are three opinions".
But if the list itself is a public ritual, so, too, is the denouncing of list-making by some of those same critics — like Dargis herself, who calls lists "artificial exercises, assertions of critical ego, capricious and necessarily imperfect".
(There is the phenomenon of directors exercising a sort of critical eye on the script, staging action in such a way as to reveal peculiarities of the story, but that's not the same thing as directing solely to create marginal ornament).
There's a strong sense here that displacement and deracination are our inevitable lot, but there's also hope to be found in distance, in the free exercise of the self-critical mind.
The nature and intensity of exercise are critical points in the magnitude of physiological effects on the cardiovascular system, such as improvement in aerobic fitness.
Perhaps the current flareup of French-bashing you describe (Arts & Ideas pages, July 6) can be explained by one basic, very characteristic difference: The French -- notably the intellectual and political classes -- are very fond of exercising their critical faculties, of asserting dissenting opinions, of establishing differences.
