The Art of Dialectic Between Dialogue and Rhetoric
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:47 am
Why I looked at this book
In The People's Economics I discuss how arguments hardly ever seem to be persuasive. They seem more about scoring some sort of points. So how can arguments be set out so as to actually try to reach a conclusion? This question leads me to the topic of dialectic, and the form of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. It's clear that over time new ideas do come to prevail (even if it is largely because the supporters of the old ideas die off) I'm hoping that this book will show how arguments which actually change people's minds have been developed over the centuries.