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I was startled the day I realized that Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great (I can just hear the roll call now; Meno…. HERE, Glycon… HERE, the Great… HERE). Anyway, Plato had a quarrel with rhetoric and the sophists...

Here is a different link with Emerson's introduction to Plutarch's Morals: http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=240

Regarding Plato's notion, that virtue may be taught, and the possible role which rhetoric might play in such education, it may be interesting to look at this work of Plutarch on Morals, with an introduction by Emerson (pdf download) http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/Book.php?recordID=0062.01

A dancing mouse who sings to a piece of cheese on a trap (with a surprise ending!) Find it at the site below, as mouse.asf, #7, or google on mouse.asf A google search reveals others http://clarence.supereva.com/download/video/lista.shtml?c=1

My wife just handed me a book catalog from Ignatius Press (www.ignatius.com ) and said, “Look at this unusual book.” I tried, without success, to google up some Pentecostal rebuttal. No Price Too High: The Conversion Story of Alex Jones (Paperback and video)...

Woah! Look out TBF! Here is an entire forum devoted to the discussion of Rhetorical Theory! http://www.mattbarton.net/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum.php?topics_offset=&topics_sort_mode=&topics_threshold=&topics_find=&forumId=4

Here is a free on line course which includes the related readings in Aristotle's Rhetoric http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c03200.htm Also, check out these readings: http://www.rhetoricculture.org/Seriexc.htm http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/resources/rhetoric/

Rhetoric, Composition and the Writing Process http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition/The_Stages_of_the_Writing_Process

Here is a readible history of Rhetoric from ancient times to present: http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Rhetoric See also: http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/SOPHIA/aristotle/rhetoric/rhetoric3b_nts.htm

There are cigar bars, juice bars, sports bars, gay bars, Irish bars; I have always wanted to see a Philosophy Bar So, call your store "The Philosophy Bar" and have a section with armchairs, and sofas, for conversation. Too bad you can't get a liquor license, or at least serve wine...

Thomas Habinek, Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. xi + 132. ISBN 0-631-23515-9. UK£13.99. http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/06-30hab.htm ... He concentrates on epideictic oration (pp. 54-59) by...

Seriously, there was one used bookstore in New Haven in the 1980's that would allow you to bring in, say, one hundred old paperbacks, and take 25 new paperbacks. One day, I saw a woman bring in 100 romance novels. I asked her if she had read them all. She explained it is her 80 year old...

By Jove! I have it! The Bookstore Bordello (read and breed) Who could compete with that?!

I am slowly beginning to realize that one might spend hour upon hour simply reading what google can provide on the topic of Aristotle and Rhetoric. Here is a course outline for Argumentation-Rhetoric-Theory http://www.gla.ac.uk/crichton/layer2/core_modules/a_r_t.htm

Here is a handy timeline for the history of Rhetoric http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Primary%20Texts/Timeline.htm Aside remark: One of the charges leveled against Socrates at his trial was that he taught people how to make "the weaker argument defeat the stronger." Also, check out this...

Here is a handy outline of Aristotle's work on Rhetoric. http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/300/aristotle1.html Here are some points that catch my eye: Definition of Happiness (Eudaimonia) External Goods (blessings): --noble birth (eugeneia) --good children --wealth --good reputation...

One would certainly hope that any edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray would contain some sort of illustration.

When I was 10 years old, I went to play with the neighbor boy, whose parents were Roman Catholic. He brought out the huge Bible, with many drawings and illustrations, and proudly announced to me that he had looked at each and every one of those drawings. Our Protestant Bible at home had no...

Six years later - part 2 of 2 http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=7393&referrerid=5083 see post #20 in the above thread

Six years later - part 1 of 2 http://forums.thebookforum.com/showthread.php?t=7393&referrerid=5083 see post #20 in the above thread (excerpt in post below) In order to answer your question, I would like to refer to one of the first posts I made at this forum, a year ago. My...