Rhetoric
* comes last, as the use of language and logic in persuasive communication.
* creativity activity when authentic and can bring others to a sense of spirit.
* dehumanizing tool used to gain power.
* facilitates certain types of actions, events, interaction styles, relationships, etc.
* is about effective human thought in the realm of communication interests
  - also more directly connected to the manipulation of language
  - anatomy
  - argument, and argument implies two sides to things, criticism, dissent, and assent
* is at the center of philosophical inquiry
  - social theory
  - communicating
  - concerned with appearance, philosophy is concerned with reality
  - essential because it teaches how to communicate, both in writing and in speaking
  - in itself a theory of knowledge
  - literary studies
* is located in courts of law
  - parliaments
  - made of words
* is one of the Western world's oldest disciplines
  - arts represented by Jupiter
  - chief contributors to the interdisciplinary field of composition
  - speech that is used to persuade someone
  - still the art of power
* is the ancient art of argumentation and discourse
  - art and science of how to tell a story effectively to any given audience
* is the art of discovering the available means of persuasion in the given case
  - persuading people to bring about the greatest good
  - ruling the minds of men
  - using language, verbal and written, effectively and persuasively
  - or science of using written or spoken words to persuade others
  - counterpart of Dialectic
  - epitome of the liberal arts degree
  - mechanics of discourse
  - power of finding the available arguments suited to a given situation
  - science of speaking with elegance and persuasion
* is the study of argument, of talk
  - how human beings use symbols, usually language, to influence other people
  - the various kinds of forms and impact that utterances have
* is used for persuasions
  - the masses
  - very much in science when analyzing evidence and theories
  - workers
* learned technique for making an intended effect on an audience or reader.
* means the power of persuasion, the art of persuasion.
* theory of knowledge for planning in practice.
* word that has come down in the world.
+ Trivium (liberal arts), Rhetoric: Middle Ages :: Liberal arts :: Cultural history
  * One way of studying the world is to look at communicating with words. Rhetoric is the mechanics of discourse. Discourse is the process of two or more people communicating about an idea. Young men studied rhetoric in order to learn how to instruct and to persuade.

Realness
* is about earning status through pain
  - actuality
* street-wise urban survival technique used by most gay, lesbian and transgender youth.

Renunciation
* corollary of spiritual maturity and a necessity and act of ripened wisdom.
* develops out of our innate urge to avoid suffering and pain.
* is actually the result of real spiritual emotion
  - basically a recognition that all existence is suffering
  - considered the goal of life
  - rejection
  - resignation
* is the essence of spirituality
  - priestly honorarium
  - step necessary for resurrection to happen - no renunciation, no resurrection
* means renunciation of desire, renunciation of selfishness.
* poor substitute for incarceration.
* status from which one can directly culture internal spiritual life.