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- Jan 2014
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www.alexandria.ucsb.edu www.alexandria.ucsb.edu
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- Oct 2013
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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if he is unwilling to learn, let another be taught before him, of whom he may be envious.
This aligns with Confucius thinker Xunzi's attitude on properly cultivating morality in others. We are guided by our desires: whatever we feel a sense of lack in, we desire that object. It is the role of those with cultivated morality (gentlemen, sages) to act as an exemplar of moral goods, so that others who have yet to be cultivated desire what they have.
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We are by nature most tenacious of what we have imbibed in our infant years, as the flavor with which you scent vessels when new remains in them, nor can the colors of wool, for which its plain whiteness has been exchanged, be effaced. Those very habits, which are of a more objectionable nature, adhere with the greater tenacity, for good ones are easily changed for the worse, but when will you change bad ones into good? Let the child not be accustomed, therefore, even while he is yet an infant, to phraseology which must be unlearned.
Claim on early development (and an accurate one, by contemporary standards).
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As birds are born to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to show fierceness, so to us peculiarly belong activity and sagacity of understanding
This little diddy here smacks of Aristotle: what distinguishes humans from all other creatures are their cognitive faculties.
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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Again, (4) it is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
Again, rhetoric as what sets humans apart from other animals.
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- Sep 2013
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.net
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I find this quote to fascinating. Isocrates isn't necessarily a cynic, but he certainly is not the happiest of philosophers.
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.netGorgias1
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persuasion is the chief end of rhetoric
Is rhetoric just the title we give to innate, self-interested, behavior? Is the term 'rhetoric' to blame, or is it simply just a label we give to human interactions?
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