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Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.

Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.

Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.

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Weaver’s book The Ethics of Rhetoric

At the center of his analysis was the insistence that modern man, “like Macbeth,” had made an evil decision to trade allegiance to transcendent principles for present gain.

In an autobiographical essay called “Up From Liberalism” (1958), Weaver recalls that in his undergraduate years at the University of Kentucky earnest professors had him “persuaded entirely that the future was with science, liberalism, and equalitarianism.”