“Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” p. 6.
The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953)

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American scholar 1910–1963

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