The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself
“Mussolini did not have any philosophy; he had only rhetoric”:
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
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Well, a similar sort of visualization-technique is at the heart of Utopian rhetoric - the prophet visualizes an image of an ideal city, and then inspires people to build it. In this sense, rhetoric is a sort of mysticism turned outward. This is the Utopian Imaginary, the use of phantasia in politics.
philosophyforlife.org • Mind Palaces: The Art of Psycho-Technics, or Soul-Craft — Philosophy for Life
THE ART OF CONTROVERSY. PRELIMINARY: LOGIC AND DIALECTIC.