Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

Studying and sharing rhetoric, the art of conversing well. #rhetoric Joined August 2020

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

11 hours ago

A reflection on Ovid's Metamorphosis and what it might teach rhetorical tradition profcurrykennedy.substack.com/p/her-own-voic…

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

a week ago

An essay on recent calls for patient, rational debate. One key point: it is easy to think you are about dialogue when you are really all about spectacle. open.substack.com/pub/profcurryk…

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

a week ago

Sometimes being emotionally wise is about seeing the unexpected ingredients at the heart of a feeling: open.substack.com/pub/profcurryk…

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Select quotes from Aristotle on anger: substack.com/profile/468017… "The cause of pleasure to those who commit wanton aggression is that they think they become more superior themselves by doing evil to others (that is why young people and rich ones are prone to wanton aggression.)”

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

4 weeks ago

My friend Roberto Leon wrote a chreia on a saying from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The theory of books is noble." Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/profcurryk…

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

a month ago

As we start a new semester, Hugh of St. Victor has some thoughts about place of reading in the life of learning. profcurrykennedy.substack.com/p/stop-reading

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

3 months ago

Is rhetoric the path to true happiness? John of Salisbury thinks so: open.substack.com/pub/profcurryk…

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

3 months ago

On this Fourth of July, how should we remember history? Cicero weighs in: "Do not dare to say anything that is false. Dare to say everything that is true." open.substack.com/pub/profcurryk…

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

3 months ago

How can we bring people together and gain wisdom in the process? Consider this ancient rhetorical practice. profcurrykennedy.substack.com/p/great-senten…

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

4 years ago

Someone's written on sprezzatura's relationship to how we present ourselves online, right?

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

4 years ago

"We can only act in the world we can see, but you cannot see by looking because we can only see what we can say." - Stanley Hauerwas.

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

4 years ago

Had my students write 50 versions of the same sentence, Erasmus style. One student chose, "I wish I could take away your pain and make it my own." And it's the best poem I've read in a while.

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

4 years ago

From a student: Your assignment "was sort of a reminder of why I loved books in the first place." That feels good, too!

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

4 years ago

From a student: Your assignment "feels more like a duty to myself than a duty to the coursework." That feels good.

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

5 years ago

I'm glad to announce that I won Penn State's Alumni Association Dissertation Award, one of "the most prestigious available to Penn State graduate students." Thank you to all who helped along the way! You can find a summary of my dissertation here: gradschool.psu.edu/alumni2021/rec…

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

5 years ago

All that is only for the sake of the author is worthless. - Pascal 1.41

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Wisdom Speaking @ForArguing

5 years ago

The learning of the gentleman (junzi) enters his ear, clings to his mind, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. The learning of the petty man enters his ear and comes out his mouth. - Xunzi, "Encouraging Learning."