For Adam Smith, the desire to persuade was a powerful human motivation underlying his theories of rhetoric, moral philosophy, economics, and jurisprudence.
Caroline Breashears
One cannot change the language in higher education in a moment, but if one jeers loudly enough, one can in time send some useless phrases into the dustbin.
Reading Demons provides an opportunity for boomers to reflect upon what they left for their children and undergo their own moral education.
Betraying the next generation into mediocrity while limiting their freedom can never be “moral.”
In The Monk, Matthew Lewis used the Gothic form first to convey the temptation to mob violence before illuminating its horrors.