Rhetorica: The Practice of Magnanimity
“Most people are normal” does not sound controversial, or even worth saying; but it is surprisingly hard, and worthwhile, to really believe.
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Rhetorica: The Discipline of Largesse
The fourth moral principle underlying rhetoric, and the first that demands a social context, is the rule of magnanimity; so what’s that?
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Rhetorica: The Little Trinity
Three mental virtues come before all others. Without them, no further thought is possible.
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Rhetorica: The Divisions of Rhetoric
“Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal.” —Richard Weaver
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Rhetorica: A Complement to Dialectica
Rhetoric is the crown of the Trivium, and this is not an accident: “these three are one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal …”
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