Epstein Secrets

path one would want to take or should ever consider. Although her points were argued well, the impact of Jordan’s speech was not simply rhetorical. John F. Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you....” and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream....” affected listeners deeply well beyond the cogniti

y also be useful in understanding other kinds of language impact from the fiery sermon of Page | 69 Edwards to the passionate speeches of Obama and Kennedy and King. In listening to speech that has impact, language has created a state in the listener that reflects the intention of the speaker. Whether i

k: Basic Books, 1968), Bk. 5, pp. 461- 465. ** Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 2, chpt. 3. °° Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, 3, i1, p. 115. Page |39 **Tmmanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1959), p. 49. *7Stephen Pope, “The Order of Love in Recent Roman Catholic Et

hy they like whomever they like. Or, alternatively, they can explain it and those explanations leave you wondering.) I will never forget attending a JFK campaign visit to Brooklyn when I was 14. The woman next to me exclaimed that she would vote for JFK because he was so gorgeous. | was appalled. I kn

elligence All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. —Immanuel Kant What is school for? A common answer is, to make people more knowl- edgeable. Another is, to socialize them and prepare them for living with others.

Simon & Schuster, 1995. See chapter one, and Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (TK London

nced confidently (and absurdly) at the Council of Trent in response to Luther’s Reformation. But there was no turning back. As the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote, the motto of the era could best be summarized as: Dare to know! “The Enlightenment,” he explained, “requires nothing but freedom.” This, it e