Nostr

I think dialect is a different art than rhetoric, a tool with a different purpose.

I think our ability to trust or distrust, and our passions and emotions, are conveyers of important information. They are irrational, but not unreasonable.

It is, so to say, the dialectic of our ancestors. A sort of... genetic tradition.

MichaelJ 1y ago

That makes sense. It has to stay well-ordered, though. Our instincts and emotions often hint in the direction reason should go, but even there the intellect has to swing in and sort everything out.

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Laeserin 1y ago

Apologetics is rhetoric, not dialectic, by the way. That the highest form of argument.

MichaelJ 1y ago

Experience certainly bears this out. However logical faith or religion may be, some people just refuse to believe it.

I think more and more that some personal experience with Christ—often through other people—is necessary to win people over to the point where they can reason clearly about Christianity.

Laeserin 1y ago

You have to love someone, to really know them.

MichaelJ 1y ago

Isn't that the whole point of Ender's Game?

To defeat your enemy you have to know him, and to know him you have to love him.