Street-Fighting Logic: The Art of Arguing with Grandmothers and Coffeeshop Philosophers
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The street-fighting logician is a man of his times and a man of those times which precede his own. He is one who loves his intellect while being no intellectual elite. He is no devout specialist or high talker. He must be an everyday man, a man of common life and common language. He must not think anything too beneath his acquaintance with, his practice in, and his employment of knowledge. He should gain just as much from the town drunk as he does from the town scholar. His inquiry and interest in those in the nursing home should not be overshadowed by his interest in those at the university. Between constant observation, civic involvement, and quiet retreats, the street-fighting logician revels in a tension between the active and the contemplative life. And this tension is humbling. Living and maturing in this tension yields the kinds of rewards which permeate all areas of life. It creates a different kind of person, rather than just a different kind of logic student.
"Once upon a time in Middle-Earth, two things were different: (1) most students learned 'the old logic,' and (2) they could think, read, write, organize, and argue much better than they can today. If you believe these two things are not connected, you probably believe storks bring babies." - Peter Kreeft
"The disrepute into which Formal Logic has fallen is entirely unjustified; and its neglect is the root cause of nearly all those disquieting symptoms which we may not in the modern intellectual constitution...to neglect the proper training of the reason is the best possible way to make it true, and to ensure the supremacy of the intuitive, irrational and unconscious elements in our make-up." - Dorothy Sayers
What One Amazon Reader Said.
"This is a comforting book, an entertaining book, and an enlightening book. It is conversational, and it is a good book to read by the fire in winter, or on the front porch in summer. If you like GK Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Peter Kreeft, George MacDonald, Elizabeth Goudge, Josef Pieper, Louise Cowan, you will like this book. If you are a youth leader at your church, you need this book. If you are the parent of teenagers, you need this book. We all need more order and precision in our thinking, more compassion in our conversation. This book does not disappoint. Chapter one defends the Need of Logic. Chapter 2 describes the Training for Logic. Chapter 3 gives the Strategy for Using Logic. And Chapter 4 maps out the noble Goal of Logic. This is a book for Christians. Street-Fighting Logic can go on the shelf next to James V. Schall's The Order of Things and The Life of the Mind, and Peter Kreeft's A Refutation of Moral Relativism. As with any good book, it references other good books. It leads the reader to good paths. It would make a good text for an entire course."
Product Details.
Author: Brian Daigle
Edition: First Edition (Previously published by Mudhouse Press)
Pages: 186
Size: 8.5 x 5.5
ISBN: 978-0-692-48685-6
Format: Perfect Bound (paperback)
The street-fighting logician is a man of his times and a man of those times which precede his own. He is one who loves his intellect while being no intellectual elite. He is no devout specialist or high talker. He must be an everyday man, a man of common life and common language. He must not think anything too beneath his acquaintance with, his practice in, and his employment of knowledge. He should gain just as much from the town drunk as he does from the town scholar. His inquiry and interest in those in the nursing home should not be overshadowed by his interest in those at the university. Between constant observation, civic involvement, and quiet retreats, the street-fighting logician revels in a tension between the active and the contemplative life. And this tension is humbling. Living and maturing in this tension yields the kinds of rewards which permeate all areas of life. It creates a different kind of person, rather than just a different kind of logic student.
"Once upon a time in Middle-Earth, two things were different: (1) most students learned 'the old logic,' and (2) they could think, read, write, organize, and argue much better than they can today. If you believe these two things are not connected, you probably believe storks bring babies." - Peter Kreeft
"The disrepute into which Formal Logic has fallen is entirely unjustified; and its neglect is the root cause of nearly all those disquieting symptoms which we may not in the modern intellectual constitution...to neglect the proper training of the reason is the best possible way to make it true, and to ensure the supremacy of the intuitive, irrational and unconscious elements in our make-up." - Dorothy Sayers
What One Amazon Reader Said.
"This is a comforting book, an entertaining book, and an enlightening book. It is conversational, and it is a good book to read by the fire in winter, or on the front porch in summer. If you like GK Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Peter Kreeft, George MacDonald, Elizabeth Goudge, Josef Pieper, Louise Cowan, you will like this book. If you are a youth leader at your church, you need this book. If you are the parent of teenagers, you need this book. We all need more order and precision in our thinking, more compassion in our conversation. This book does not disappoint. Chapter one defends the Need of Logic. Chapter 2 describes the Training for Logic. Chapter 3 gives the Strategy for Using Logic. And Chapter 4 maps out the noble Goal of Logic. This is a book for Christians. Street-Fighting Logic can go on the shelf next to James V. Schall's The Order of Things and The Life of the Mind, and Peter Kreeft's A Refutation of Moral Relativism. As with any good book, it references other good books. It leads the reader to good paths. It would make a good text for an entire course."
Product Details.
Author: Brian Daigle
Edition: First Edition (Previously published by Mudhouse Press)
Pages: 186
Size: 8.5 x 5.5
ISBN: 978-0-692-48685-6
Format: Perfect Bound (paperback)