{"id":198,"date":"2012-05-03T21:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-05-03T21:45:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T02:45:51","slug":"eloquence-and-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/05\/03\/eloquence-and-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Eloquence and Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a well known fact that &#8216;Eloquence without wisdom is futile.'(citing Cicero, <em>Orator<\/em> 4. 14) Whence it is clear that eloquence derives its efficacy from wisdom.\u00a0 The utility of eloquence is, in fact, directly in proportion to the measure of wisdom a person may have attained.\u00a0 On the other hand, eloquence becomes positively harmful when it departs from wisdom.\u00a0 It is accordingly evident that dialectic, the highly efficient and ever-ready servant of eloquence, is useful to anyone in proportion to the degree of knowledge he possesses.&#8221;\u00a0 John of Salisbury, <em>Metalogicon<\/em>, Bk II, Chap. 9.\u00a0trans. Daniel D. McGarry (Berkeley 1955), p. 93.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a well known fact that &#8216;Eloquence without wisdom is futile.'(citing Cicero, Orator 4. 14) Whence it is clear that eloquence derives its efficacy from wisdom.\u00a0 The utility of eloquence is, in fact, directly in proportion to the measure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/05\/03\/eloquence-and-wisdom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28,26,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicero","category-dialectic-logic","category-eloquence","category-john-of-salisbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}