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On the old road out of Kotor, Montenegro. Now there’s a tunnel through the mountains. It’s faster, but the view isn’t nearly as good.
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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A small beach by the Villa Dubrovnik.
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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Villa Dubrovnik, Croatia
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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Editing is where a writer shows their ove for the audience and the craft.
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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“It is past time that we consider in our public discourse the civic responsibilities of corporations. There must be prescribed forms of public accountability for institutions that have a disproportionate amount of wealth, power, and influence. This is not a matter of demonizing corporations, but an issue of democratic survival.”
—Cornell West
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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“We are experiencing a lethal linkage of relative economic decline (i.e., working-class wage stagnation), cultural decay, and political lethargy.”
—Cornel West
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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“What are You, my God,” I thought angrily, “compared to this afflicted crowd, proclaiming to You their faith, their anger, their revolt? What does Your greatness mean, Lord of the universe, in the face of all this weakness, this decomposition, and this decay? Why do you still trouble their sick minds, their crippled bodies?”
Night by Elie Wiesel
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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Webb's Writing Tips
Webb’s Writing Tips
In my experience, it is the rare attorney who likes to write.  But also true to my own experience is that if you can find good writing advice that works for you, then the task becomes a bit easier and even more enjoyable.  Along those lines, my research has led me to Laura Webb and her article, “Why Legal Writers Should Think Like Teachers.  Webb’s advice is to view “[l]egal writing [as]…
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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Toulmin's Paradigm
Toulmin’s Paradigm
Toulmin’s argument layout (below) is helpful to organize and critically assess a case. Saunders argued that this model is useful in two ways: “First, it can be used to identify the component parts of pretrial case development”; and second, “the model helps us to understand that this process is often reverse-engineered” (570). Nota bene: Saunders uses the terms grounds and data…
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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Is the practice of law rhetorical?
Is the practice of law rhetorical?
If we commit to taking Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric seriously, the the practice of law seems thoroughly rhetorical. Aristotle said that rhetoric is the search for the available means of persuasion in a given situation (Smith 6). Under that definition, it is hard to see how the practice of law is not rhetorical. Indeed, taking the example of an attorney interviewing a potential client that…
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filosofermonkey · 3 years
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What is Rhetoric?
What Is Rhetoric The word rhetoric carries at least two meanings—one that is important for our purposes and one that is less so.  Starting with the meaning that is less important for our objective, rhetoric, in common speech, seems to imply a certain valence to language and an implication that what is being said it not true and, perhaps, only being said only for effect.  Oftentimes, we hear…
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So, What's the Problem?
So, What’s the Problem?
Some time ago, I had suggested that we gather for a series of training seminars in conjunction with an ongoing series of “office hours” to look at this thing called rhetoric and decide if it can help our practice. I am putting together this series of blog posts to set forth the first session of the training session.  We can consider it the first module. I believe that the practice of law is a…
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filosofermonkey · 4 years
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The realm of the word is tiny indeed, as compared with the vast expanse of wordlessness through space and time.
—Kenneth Burke, Questions and Answers About the Pentad
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filosofermonkey · 4 years
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filosofermonkey · 4 years
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Wat Po.
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