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How do we talk about atomic bomb ? www catholic com
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. Aristotle wrote a book about its theory. So have many others, such as one of my favorite modern writers, Richard Weaver. Rhetoric concerns itself with trying to convince others about something or with trying to move them to take a particular action.
There already may be a book about the morality of the bombings from a Catholic perspective. If so, I haven't come across it. (The closest one I know of is Msgr. Ronald Knox's God and the Atom, written in 1945.)
If a book of that sort were to be outlined now, what would its parts be? What chapters would it have? How much emphasis should be given this point versus that point? How much emphasis should be put on the squabbles that occupy so many print and digital inches each summer? What things need to be addressed before turning to a resolution of the moral issues?
The only thing I'm pretty sure of is that such a book--or long essay, if that is the better format--needs to deal with people and their opinions as they actually are manifested in those articles, letters, and comments. I say that because, if I were to write such a piece, my target audience would be precisely the everyday folks who, year after year, offer their opinions.
I would want to respond to the comments that they have been serving up. Some of those comments are well-formed and well-informed; they come from people who, whatever their conclusions, have done some homework.
Unfortunately, most of the comments (especially those online) are the result of hearsay or misinformation or gut feelings, much like the attitudes most Fundamentalists have about the Catholic Church. Despite their provenance, those comments need to be answered, not ignored.
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Karl Keating
How do we talk about atomic bomb ? www catholic com
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. Aristotle wrote a book about its theory. So have many others, such as one of my favorite modern writers, Richard Weaver. Rhetoric concerns itself with trying to convince others about something or with trying to move them to take a particular action.
There already may be a book about the morality of the bombings from a Catholic perspective. If so, I haven't come across it. (The closest one I know of is Msgr. Ronald Knox's God and the Atom, written in 1945.)
If a book of that sort were to be outlined now, what would its parts be? What chapters would it have? How much emphasis should be given this point versus that point? How much emphasis should be put on the squabbles that occupy so many print and digital inches each summer? What things need to be addressed before turning to a resolution of the moral issues?
The only thing I'm pretty sure of is that such a book--or long essay, if that is the better format--needs to deal with people and their opinions as they actually are manifested in those articles, letters, and comments. I say that because, if I were to write such a piece, my target audience would be precisely the everyday folks who, year after year, offer their opinions.
I would want to respond to the comments that they have been serving up. Some of those comments are well-formed and well-informed; they come from people who, whatever their conclusions, have done some homework.
Unfortunately, most of the comments (especially those online) are the result of hearsay or misinformation or gut feelings, much like the attitudes most Fundamentalists have about the Catholic Church. Despite their provenance, those comments need to be answered, not ignored.
www catholic com
Karl Keating
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