Wisdom Speaking
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Studying and sharing rhetoric, the art of conversing well. #rhetoric
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How can I become a better speaker or writer? Some answers you may not like: open.substack.com/pub/profcurryk…
How can we cultivate a sense of propriety, of doing the exact right thing at the exact right time? Cicero has some intriguing places to start profcurrykennedy.substack.com/p/pathways-to-…
A reflection on Ovid's Metamorphosis and what it might teach rhetorical tradition profcurrykennedy.substack.com/p/her-own-voic…
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…
Sometimes being emotionally wise is about seeing the unexpected ingredients at the heart of a feeling: open.substack.com/pub/profcurryk…
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.)”
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…
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
Is rhetoric the path to true happiness? John of Salisbury thinks so: open.substack.com/pub/profcurryk…
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…
How can we bring people together and gain wisdom in the process? Consider this ancient rhetorical practice. profcurrykennedy.substack.com/p/great-senten…
Someone's written on sprezzatura's relationship to how we present ourselves online, right?
"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.
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.
From a student: Your assignment "was sort of a reminder of why I loved books in the first place." That feels good, too!
From a student: Your assignment "feels more like a duty to myself than a duty to the coursework." That feels good.
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…
All that is only for the sake of the author is worthless. - Pascal 1.41
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."
The use, not the reading, of book makes one wise. - Geffrey Whitney, Choice of Emblems, 1586
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