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  • Clark on Burke/Identification/Rhetorical Criticism on 2009-01-03
    • one does not want merely to outwit the opponent, or to study him,

      one wants to be affected by him . . . --in brief, to learn from him
    • People use

      language in social life and identification is unavoidable. But because

      we can learn to choose from among identifications, some instances

      of persuasion can be avoided. Persuasion, Burke writes in A Rhetoric

      of Motives      , is enacted in a transformation of one's perception and

      attitude, and the elements of that process of transformation are identifications

      (46). Consequently, we should learn to defer consent to the transformations

      that would render a particular discursive act functionally persuasive

      by first locating the identifications it entails and then choosing from

      among them which ones to accept. In his essay on education this becomes

      a method that takes the form of two questions: "you begin by asking

      yourself 'what equals what in this text?' And then, next, you ask 'what

      follows what in this text?'"
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche - On the Future of Our Educational Institutions on 2008-12-30
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) on 2008-12-29
    • Machiavelli presents a trenchant criticism of the concept of authority
      by arguing that the notion of legitimate rights of rulership adds
      nothing to the actual possession of power. The Prince purports
      to reflect the self-conscious political realism of an author
      who is fully aware—on the basis of direct experience with the
      Florentine government—that goodness and right are not sufficient
      to win and maintain political office.
  • Political Realism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] on 2008-12-29
    • Political
      realism in essence reduces to the political-ethical principle that
      might is right. The theory has a long history, being evident in
      Thucydides' Pelopennesian War. It was expanded on by
      Machiavelli in The Prince, and others such as Thomas Hobbes,
      Spinoza, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau followed (the theory was given
      great dramatical portrayed in Shakespeare's Richard III). In
      the late nineteenth century it underwent a new incarnation in the form
      of social darwinism,
  • Machiavelli on the Net: A short introduction on 2008-12-29
    • Particularly the ending of the book
      has been interpreted by some to mean Machiavelli’s ideal was a unified Italy,
      and that he justifies his immoral advice with patriotic aims.
  • Lecture on Machiavelli (Machiavelli as satire) on 2008-12-29
  • Machiavelli - THE FACTS on 2008-12-29
    • Machiavelli placed a number of restrictions on evil actions. First, he specified
      that the only acceptable end was the stabilization & health of the state;
      individual power for its own sake is not an acceptable end & does not justify
      evil actions. Second, Machiavelli does not dispense entirely with morality nor
      advocate wholesale selfishness or degeneracy. Instead he clearly lays out his
      definition of, for example, the criteria for acceptable cruel actions (it must
      be swift, effective, & short-lived).
  • About Folklore: Alan Dundes Obituary on 2008-12-05
    • "He
      virtually constructed the field of modern folklore studies and trained many of its most distinguished scholars.
    • he also studied contemporary cartoons, poems,
      jokes and other lore passed along from one person to another. In his book, "Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing," he
      and co-author Carl Pagter analyzed modern folklore including T-shirt slogans, ethnic and sexual remarks, scatalogical humor,
      and exchanges distributed via office photocopy machines.
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  • Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) on 2008-11-27
    • About 1591 he formed a friendship with the Earl of Essex, from whom he received many tokens of kindness ill requited. In 1593 the offices of Attorney-general, and subsequently of Solicitor-general became vacant, and Essex used his influence on Bacon's behalf, but unsuccessfully, the former being given to Coke, the famous lawyer. These disappointments may have been owing to a speech made by Bacon on a question of subsidies. To console him for them Essex presented him with a property at Twickenham, which he subsequently sold for £1800, equivalent to a much larger sum now.
    • By 1601 Essex had lost the Queen's favour, and had raised his rebellion, and Bacon was one of those appointed to investigate the charges against him, and examine witnesess, in connection with which he showed an ungrateful and indecent eagerness in pressing the case against his former friend and benefactor, who was executed on Feb. 25, 1601. This act Bacon endeavoured to justify in A Declaration of the Practices and Treasons, etc., of...the Earl of Essex, etc.
  • http://www.whitworth.edu/core/classes/co250/UK/Data/d_bacon.htm on 2008-11-27
    • Once, he publicly opposed
      the queen and lost his high position. Subsequently, however, he supported
      the queen's decision to hang his best friend. His motivations and his reasonings
      in this case have frequently been debated.
    • After the
      death of Queen Elizabeth I and the ascension of James I, Bacon's star
      rose once more. He was made Solicitor-General in 1607 and six years later
      Attorney-General; in 1617, he was given his father's former position,
      Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; the following year he was named Lord Chancellor
      and the Baron Verulam. During the reign of James I, Bacon also wrote his
      two most important philosophical works. The first, The Advancement
      of Learning       (1605)

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