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Mark D. Jordan Quotes

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Mark D. Jordan is a member of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics and university professor of the humanities at Washington University in St.

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Academic writing excuses itself from rhetorical care in the selfless service of some precise truth—and then deforms our only means for speaking truth.

Aristippus is credited with having said that those who stop short of philosophy in the preparatory studies are like Penelope's suitors: they marry the maids, but not the mistress.

Authority and persuasion in philosophy (1985)

The claim of philosophy to be about the whole can be secured only if the many "ordinary" languages in the whole can be taken over by an act of persuasion into a language about the whole.

Authority and persuasion in philosophy (1985)

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