Richard Weaver Quote

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.


The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric, p. 24. - The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953)


Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a...

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a...

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a...

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a...