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Victoriosa Loquacitas

“Victoriosa Loquacitas: The Rise of Rhetoric and the Fall of Everything Else,” Western Speech 20:2 (Spring 1956):57-82; CWHN 10:243-286. A study of the rhetoric of the second Sophistic movement and its influence on politics and culture generally, with obvious significance for our own time because of remarkable parallel developments in the current world of business, …

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The God of the Philosophers

Thales (d. 546 B.C.): “Thales says that the God of the Universe (cosmos) is Mind (Nous), and that the Universe (to pan-“everything”) is alive and full of divine power (daemons); also that the basic element of water pervades all things through God’s divine animating power.” “And some say that Spirit is mixed in with everything; …

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