[lbo-talk] "Cheer the Fuck Up"

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun May 2 04:35:27 PDT 2004


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.



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