Description
Which will be sharper, your mind or your tongue?
Every fool can think and speak, or so they think, but you’ll be far ahead by taking a few tips from the greatest minds that ever lived.
How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero may look like two books in one, one on thinking and another on speaking. It is, in fact, a little more than that, since it also looks at the close but fraught relationship between these two profoundly, pre-eminently human activities.
Thinking, however brilliant it may be, is of little use unless it can be communicated to others in such a way that they will be carried by it. Compared to reason, rhetoric may be cheap and manipulative. But it is a necessary evil if we are to achieve worthwhile aims in the world, or simply counter the destructive tendencies of the modern sophists.
Although he had scant regard for sophists and other self-interested bamboozlers, Plato did concede that truth is more persuasive when allied with rhetoric, and that dialectic and rhetoric ought to go hand in hand, since ‘he who would deceive others, and not be deceived, must exactly know the real likenesses and differences of things.’
Do you want to have all the best arguments? Do you want others to buy into them? Do you want to make an even greater impact and difference? In which case, start reading.
In this book, you’ll learn:
- What it really takes to be a good thinker.
- Why persuasion is about a lot more than mere argument.
- How to build emotion into your arguments.
- How to be funny without trying.
- How to speak with style.
- How to show up your opponent.
- How to deal with a bullsh*tter.
- And much more.
Details
Publisher - Acheron Press
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Neel Burton
Published Date - 2025-04-25
ISBN - 9781913260576
Dimensions - 21.6 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 236
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