It's About AMERICA!!!!!!!

[Michael Joseph]

In response considering the comment if intended ironically: yes, ok:
rhetoric is a golem. On the other hand, obviously, one can be persuaded
without being persuaded, and offering an argument in order to test its
explanatory power is not just the hippie version of trying to persuade.
While I don't ultimately believe in the pancritical rationalist argument
(Wm. Bartley III, et al), I see intellectual value in their dictum one
must keep all positions open, to which let me add, as seems to be the
prevailing custom, particularly when reading Thomas Pynchon.


Michael


On Fri, 9 May 2003, Steve Maas wrote:

> Well, that persuades me.  Steve Maas
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> Michael Joseph quotes Kundera:
> "a person who thinks should not try to persuade others of his belief; that
> is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the 'man
> of conviction';  politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a
> conviction? it is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and
> the 'man of conviction' is a man restricted; experimental thought seeks not
> to persuade but to inspire; to inspire another thought, to set thought
> moving; that is why a novelist must systematically desystematize his
> thought, kick at the barricade that he himself has erected around his
> ideas."
>
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