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The Blessings of Liberty: Reminders from Aristotle and Livy For Our Troubled Times

Posted April 14, 2017June 25, 2020 emily2Leave a commentPosted in Liberal Arts, Liberal Education

by Andrew T. Seeley . . . Let [the reader] follow in his mind how, as discipline broke down bit by bit, morality at first foundered; how it next subsided in ever greater collapse and then began to topple headlong in ruin—until the advent of our own age in which we can endure neither our […]

Portia’s Powerful Tongue: The Ethics of Lady Rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice

Posted April 14, 2017August 19, 2020 emily2Leave a commentPosted in Liberal Arts, Rhetoric

by Scott F. Crider When early modern Europeans searched for a myth of human nature, familial bond, and civil association, they found one in an early Ciceronian treatise on oratory, de Inventione, in which he offers an etiological myth of rhetoric, “the origin of this thing we call eloquence”: For there was a time when […]