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Total Control Over an Argument

There is only point in any argument that you have total control over - yourself. I read a quote like that in some book or website. It seems trite, and yet people contradict it often. And, no, I'm not talking Stoicism or control over emotions. I'm talking about character.  In rhetoric, the Greeks spoke often of character - namely, the character of the person making the argument. Aristotle wrote, in Rhetoric: We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. This kind of persuasion, like the others, should be achieved by what the speaker says, not by what people think of his character before he begins to speak...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on December 28, 2010 (boomark / email).