- Overview
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This book introduces the five tools of thinking created by Greek geniuses who led the golden age of Greece before Socrates (metaphor, principle, sentence, number and rhetoric), and suggests how to develop and utilize them in the modern age.
- Book Intro
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It introduces "the five tools of thinking," which helped Greece close the cultural gap between it and its neighboring countries and emerge as the origin of Western civilization. Readers learn what these tools are, how they work, how they have been developed and applied in history, why they are still needed, and how to become well-versed in them across various fields including philosophy, classical literature, history, literature and brain neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, and pedagogy.
The information revolution started in the late 20th century and continues to thrive in the new millennium with the advent of the internet and social media and the way these two things changed not just the way knowledge is produced and delivered but also the form and essence of information. In this age, what tools of thinking might be needed? This book can be said to be an answer to two issues we must tackle. First, in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we are keenly aware of the necessity of creativity, imagination, problem-solving, critical thinking, communication and collaboration skills that machines lack as of yet or will lack at least for a considerable period of time. Second, the book makes a suggestion about the task of overcoming the "modern rationality" that was dramatically exposed in imperialism and the two world wars, especially in Auschwitz, and has since been constantly criticized by postmodernists.
Unlike modern reason, which is based on sameness, the tools of thinking proposed in this book are rooted in similarity. This would enable “flexible and inclusive and therefore capable and creative thinking” that goes beyond the violence and incompetence of modern reason, which has drawn clear boundaries between certain things and incidents and excluded things that are different.
- About the Author
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Kim Youngkwan
- Selection
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"Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, 2015, Sejong Books for Liberal Arts Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea, 2016, Recommended Book for College Freshmen"