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" This is the source from which has sprung the undoubtedly absurd and unprofitable and reprehensible severance between the tongue and the brain, leading to our having one set of professors to teach us to think and another to teach us to speak. "
Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and Western Lies - Page 3
by C. Jan Swearingen - 1991 - 344 pages
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Educational Theory as Theory of Conduct: From Aristotle to Dewey

Joseph James Chambliss - 1987 - 198 pages
...education of the orator from that of the philosopher.12 He thought it was the teachings of Socrates which "separated the science of wise thinking from that...speaking, though in reality they are closely linked together."13 Cicero goes on to say that Socrates' teachings are the source of "the undoubtedly absurd...
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Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration

Gary Remer - 1996 - 336 pages
...heal the breach between philosophy and rhetoric, for which he blames Socrates, "the source from whom has sprung the undoubtedly absurd and unprofitable...reprehensible severance between the tongue and brain." 1 To philosophers who maintain that the indefinite question and philosophy are in the domain of dialectic,...
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Philosophy and the Return to Self-knowledge

Donald Phillip Verene - 1997 - 332 pages
...life and morality and things good and evil" (Tuse. V. 410-11). Cicero in De oratore says that Socrates "in his discussions separated the science of wise...though in reality they are closely linked together" (III. 16.60). Cicero says that it is absurd to sever the tongue from the brain; he says that Socrates...
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More's Utopia

Dominic Baker-Smith, Renaissance Society of America - 2000 - 290 pages
...the whole study and practice of the liberal sciences being entitled philosophy, Socrates robbed them of this general designation, and in his discussions...speaking, though in reality they are closely linked together.45 The point of elegant speaking is, of course, to give wise thinking some practical impact...
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The Politics of Postmodernity: Essays in Applied Hermeneutics

Gary Brent Madison - 2001 - 298 pages
...the whole study and practice of the liberal sciences being entitled philosophy, Socrates robbed them of this general designation, and in his discussions...though in reality they are closely linked together; and the genius and varied discourses of Socrates have been immortally enshrioed in the compositions...
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Fiction and Incarnation: Rhetoric, Theology, and Literature in the Middle Ages

Alexandre Leupin - 2003 - 292 pages
...the whole study and practice of the liberal sciences being entitled philosophy, Socrates robbed them of this general designation, and in his discussions...and reprehensible severance between the tongue and the brain, leading to our having one set of professors to teach us to think and another to teach us...
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Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy

Benedetto Fontana, Cary J. Nederman - 2010 - 352 pages
...(the whole study and practice of the liberal sciences being called philosophyl, Socrates robbed them of this general designation, and in his discussions...and reprehensible severance between the tongue and the brain, leading to our having one set of professors to teach us to think and another to teach us...
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The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Philosophy, Volumes 1-2

Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 668 pages
...(1810), in Collected Works, ed. W. Hamilton, vol. 5; here pp. 149-88. RHETORIC PETER FRANCE Socrates ... in his discussions separated the science of wise thinking...speaking, though in reality they are closely linked This is the source from which has sprung the undoubtedly absurd and unprofitable and reprehensible...
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