Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong. Plato Today I went and hung out with one of my first philosophy professors, along with several other students. He gave each of us a quote that he felt appropriately paralleled our mindset, and this was mine. It was a cool gesture. Except Im not sure if hes insulting my approach to debate, or praising my disdain for pretentious asshats discussing irrelevant bullshit like the meaning of the word the.
Posted on: Sat, 03 May 2014 05:29:08 +0000