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Good speaking
The art of persuasion, as practiced today in political debate as well as in the
courts of law, has developed over the ages. Quintilian’s book, contains one of
the fullest surveys of oratorical insights ever written that has come down to us in
its entirety. It has been used in teaching oratory at universities since the Middle
Ages.
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus 35 - 95 AD
His definition of an orator as -"the good man speaking well."
1. The speaker must have a high moral character.
2. It helps if the speaker has knowledge of a broad range of
subjects, and it is imperative that he knows the subject on which
he speaks in-depth.
3. He stresses the importance of the moral appeal
4. He advocates simple and clear language.
We should think beyond the clichés and private wisdom, the platitudes about
change and continuity, tradition and modernity that arise out of a mocking
dismissal of morality.
Caring for the Handicap helps us to be moral
The silly deception of the global market that tell us that we can have it all.
Caring for the Handicap reveals that we cannot
‘The strong survive and to hell with those beneath you’. This may be a sweeping
generalizations, but isn’t this what the crux of the theory of evolution is about.
It’s wrong because the human evolved to his present status with the support of
his association. He does so even now.
In human society besides physical ability there is wealth but these are not the
only sign of competition. Intelligence is equally as fierce. Like money, knowledge
is not pursued with the idea of sharing it with the world; rather it is held that the
most intelligent somehow have a higher degree of importance on the food chain.
Who decreed this? Why is it that people who are not knowledgeable in a certain
area are somehow less important, less deserving of life?
When we die, our accomplishments remain on Earth. Our material things remain
here as well.
Why struggle so hard to beat others at everything to be the best, the smartest,
the most athletic the most sexually proficient specimen when you can instead live
to love everyone.
Have we not seen enough worried / hurt people who turn around and do the
same to others still, when given the (evolutionary!!) chance?
Why can't we start being the evolved ones, the ones to search for knowledge
because knowledge is pure truth, and share that truth with others?
The word education comes from the Latin e-ducere meaning "to lead out."
I hope I can start to be a better person now, after thinking on it. I hope you can be
too.