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But when a man begins to get older, he will no longer be guilty of such insanity; he will imitate the dialectician who is seeking for truth, and not the eristic, who is contradicting for the sake of amusement; and the greater moderation of his character will increase instead of diminishing the honour of the pursuit. Very true, he said.
In verbose monologues, he combats the superstitions and fanaticism of the orthodox. This Jewish Tartufe is very different in his complexity from the character created by Moliere. Zibeon is a wonderworking Rabbi, a subtle sophist, a crafty dialectician. The waves of the Talmud, the casuistry of more than a millennium of scholasticism, have left their traces in his mind and personality.
'And who, pray, is this peerless friend? 'Augustine of Hippo. 'Humph! It had been better for the world in general, if the great dialectician had exerted his powers of persuasion on Heraclian himself. 'He did so, but in vain. 'I don't doubt it.
Socrates himself, following, of course, the taste of his talent that of a surpassing dialectician took first the side of reason; and, in fact, what did he do all his life but laugh at the awkward incapacity of the noble Athenians, who were men of instinct, like all noble men, and could never give satisfactory answers concerning the motives of their actions?
Zeno of Elea, a subtle dialectician, was severely reprimanded by Plato as a sophist, who, merely from the base motive of exhibiting his skill in discussion, maintained and subverted the same proposition by arguments as powerful and convincing on the one side as on the other.
"Really, you and your Dialectics seem in a hopeful and valiant state of mind." "Why not? Can truth do anything but conquer?" "Of course-assuming, as every one does, that the truth is with you." "My dear fellow, I have seldom met a man who could not be a far better dialectician than I shall ever be, if he would but use his Common Sense." "Common Sense?
Has this code any social "cash value" when it is brought to bear on the lawyer's clerk who forged a cheque to save a woman? I have not considered Professor James' merits as a dialectician, or Mr. Galsworthy's as a dramatist.
But now the lad begins to ask awkward questions, and to put me in a corner; the young rascal is a vigorous dialectician and rationalist odd result of such training. It becomes a serious question how I am to behave. I cannot bear to distress his mother, yet how can I tell him that I literally believe those quaint old fables?
Faustus of Mileve, the great oracle and leader of the sect, a subtle dialectician and brilliant orator, but without depth or earnestness, whom he compares to a cup-bearer presenting a costly goblet, but without anything in it.
Genevieve, and was the subject of admiration to all men. When, however, much to my regret, Abelard left us, I attended Master Alberic, a most obstinate Dialectician, and unflinching assailant of the Nominal Sect. Two years I stayed at Mont St. Genevieve, under the tuition of Alberic and Master Robert de Melun. Then follows a characterization of these teachers.
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