From alcohol and drug addiction to rage on national highways and in airports many human beings have kept themselves in perpetual turmoil and despair. From encroachment on individual rights and liberties to wars of attrition and mass genocide human history has continually repeated itself due to a failure to see the light. Containing numerous skillbuilding exercises Critical Thinking Unleashed seeks to cultivate the reasoning skills required to overcome such destructive human tendencies and to live meaningful and productive lives in a democratic society. In contrast to other treatments of practical reasoning Elliot D. Cohen not only teaches students how to identify and refute irrational premiseshe also teaches them how to construct rational antidotes to combat the personal social and political obstacles they confront in everyday life. Moreover Cohen encourages students to use the theories and ideas embodied in the history of philosophy in order to construct these rational guides drawing examples from many contemporary sources. Demonstrating the practical relevance and import of many historically significant philosophers e.g. Socrates Aristotle Epictetus Hume Kant Mill Sartre and Nietzsche the book presents a practical nontechnical and comprehensive approach to critical thinking.