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What is Rhetoric?
Rhetoric is the art of using language to persuade other individuals to agree with your viewpoint. Whether trying to determine blame (past tense), trying to determine your values (present tense), or trying to determine what to do (future tense), Rhetoric allows an individual to use manipulative language to convince you or an audience that their solution is the best one.
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The opposite of Dialectical Reasoning, Rhetoric was created and first employed during Greek times, when conniving orators (sophists) needed to be able to persuade an audience that their claims were truthful, even if they weren't...
"Why should one be just in a society that is seemingly unjust?"
In a world where evil seems to prevail regularly, it's easy to ask, "why should I be good in a world that seems NOT good?"
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This was the fundamental question Plato asked in his masterwork, "The Republic". In it, he asks, "why should one be just in an unjust world?".
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While the logician in us immediately wants to point out the logical fallacy in his premise (is the world unjust? or are just components of it unjust? Is there also justice in the world?"), it does make for a great conversation in this 500+ page book...