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11/ I suppose that for those who weren't born with the super power of autism, rigorous training is a good 2nd-best approach to defense against the dark arts.
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What I find unsettling is when people seem to be aware that they are using rhetoric as opposed to logic/facts to make their points, and when you try to correct them with facts, they get mad at you for playing the game wrong
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Example: someone says "Not one more death from gun violence!" And I reply, "OK, but you understand that's impossible, right?" And they're like, "Come on, you know what I mean. Don't be disingenuous" ???
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A lot of Chesterton is like that but I thought Everlasting Man arguing the truth of Christianity based on it being essentially the culmination of all possible stories was really remarkable and cogent.
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Seems to me the goal of classical education, that whole how-to-think instead of what-to-think, is to produce a mind that is rhetoric-proof.
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Modern education also teaches people "how-to-think" and produces "rhetoric-proof" minds. I think the big difference is that classical education pursued Truth/Goodness/Beauty, and modern education denies the existence of these things.
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