[lbo-talk] "Cheer the Fuck Up"

[Michael Pollak]

On Sat, 1 May 2004, Ted Winslow wrote:

> In any event, the soldiers in Iraq were behaving more in accord with the
> ethics of Foucault and Zizek than with those of Aristotle and Kant,
> weren't they?

"Of the modes of persuasion some are technical, others non-technical.  By
the latter I mean such things as are not supplied by the speaker but are
there at the outset -- witnesses, evidence given under torture, written
contracts, and so on."

			Aristotle, _Rhetoric_, Book I, 1355, 36-38.