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PrivateFieldEel26 Can I get a second opinion on thoughts about Chapter 2,…Can I get a second opinion on thoughts about Chapter 2, Interesting/Confusing/infuriating reactions? Book- How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World Of Odds By Alan Jacobs Below are pages of chapter 2 for Reference – Image transcription textHOW TO THINK two ATTRACTIONS How good people can be ledto do bad things Leah Libresco, of the same generation as MeganPhelps- Roper, grew up on Long Island in a family wher… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK So when she came to Yale University and metCatholic and Orthodox Christians—people grounded in an olderfaith with stronger intellectual buttressing— Libresco … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK So when she came to Yale University and metCatholic and Orthodox Christians—people grounded in an olderfaith with stronger intellectual buttressing— Libresco … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK according to what some judges decreed aboutyour ability to defend a designated position; you were vulnerableto changes of your own mind. And changing your mind … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK arise automatically and almost instantaneously,long before moral reasoning has a chance to get started, andthose ?rst intuitions tend to drive our later reasoning.”… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK of strong genetic predispositions, but how thosedispositions are activated seems largely to be a matter of whatparticular people one happens to bump into and when…. Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK one of the primary ways we can tell thedifference between an unhealthy Inner Ring and a healthycommunity is by their attitudes toward thinking. The I… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK twenty-?rst-century person with a smartphoneas well as for the prehistoric hunter—gatherer on the savanna,isolation is deadly, while genuine solidarity is life- givin… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK thing can be taken too far. And where is the linethat separates (a) matching my writing to my audience from (b)telling people what they want to hear so that I can get … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK SOLIDARITY, FRIEND AND FOE As an exampleof what I mean, let me re?ect on the controversy in 2014 overTa—Nehisi Coates’s ambitious and detailed article for … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textHOW TO THINK re?ection on the means of addressing thisseemingly permanent af?iction at the heart of American life. Theywere moved, I think, by a heartfelt commitment to soli… Show more… Show more Arts & HumanitiesEnglish