A Personal/Political Case for Debate

Catherine Helen Palczewski University of Northern Iowa

Abstract

ABSTRACT Debate is a civic skill necessary for democracy. Participation in debate is important not only because it teaches habits of advocacy that enable a person to win an argument, but because debate, at its best, teaches us how to lose and, in losing, understand why others act the way they do.

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Philosophy & Rhetoric
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2019-04-01
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10.5325/philrhet.52.1.0086
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