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To: casuist

No need, Res ipsa loquitur

From you home page link:

....... professor, rhetorician at Royal Roads University, Victoria BC
Victoria BC

About meBuzzassistant professor, phd in rhetoric

•assistant professor
•phd in rhetoric

•First Holder of the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies, Mount Royal University, Calgary AB, 2009-10

•public speaker

•consultant on message campaign and social media issues

Perennialist, depressive realist, hermetic solitary, Torah observant Jew.

Life-Goal: To make the humanities relevant again by grounding it in the world of practical work and activity.
Places I’ve lived
Pittsburgh, PA; Mystic, CT; Charleston, SC; Hampton, VA; Fairfax County, VA; Warranton, VA; Anniston, AL; Bad Hersfeld, Germany; Rota, Spain; Honolulu, HI; Indianapolis, IN; Calgary, AB
Schools I’ve attended
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA; Butler University, Indianapolis IN

•public speaker

•consultant on message campaign and social media issues

Perennialist, depressive realist, hermetic solitary, Torah observant Jew.

Life-Goal: To make the humanities relevant again by grounding it in the world of practical work and activity.


157 posted on 11/12/2010 11:06:27 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremists use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; moder_ator

Well, so? You posted my personal information. Did you discover anything subversive? What do you conclude?


163 posted on 11/12/2010 11:08:57 AM PST by casuist (Audi alteram partem.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein will officially hand over the endowed chair that bears his name to Dr.[casuist].

Maybe casuist has an endowed chair, maybe not.

I'd have to see him on a TSA scanner before I decided.

183 posted on 11/12/2010 11:35:22 AM PST by Lazamataz (Pelosi: Like a rapist, PROUD of their handiwork.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; casuist

I had to look it up. Posting just because. :-)

cas·u·ist Noun
1. A person who uses clever but unsound reasoning, esp. in relation to moral questions.
2. A person who resolves moral problems by the application of theoretical rules to particular instances.
ca·su·ist·ry noun plural ca·su·ist·ries

Definition of CASUISTRY
1: a resolving of specific cases of conscience, duty, or conduct through interpretation of ethical principles or religious doctrine
2: specious argument : rationalization


271 posted on 11/12/2010 1:55:21 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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