Rhetorical Philosophy in a Difficult and Dangerous Time

Donald Phillip Verene Emory University

Abstract

ABSTRACT Philosophy combined with rhetoric offers a consolation in a time of crisis that politics cannot achieve. Political speech is guided by ideology. Philosophical speech is guided by ideas. It is the ideas that offer perspective that is so much needed in difficult and dangerous times.

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
Published
2020-06-15
DOI
10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0332
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