Wow!! I have not completely finished the reading, but I was simply amazed as I read page seventy-one by how he explained relativism. I actually understood what he was saying it was. There is almost a definition in those long sentences. And then he amazed me even further when he compared relativism to pluralism. I actually understood this too! For once after reading this, my brain wasn't a fuzzy gray mass of confusion.
I also liked the way her explained persuasion and rhetoric. His comments about realizing that there are different beliefs, and tyring to tell people them, but not always expecting them to believe really made sense to me. I could also relate this to my life. I went to private school out of my church, and we were taught a basic set of beliefs that all the teachers followed. However, right after high school, I went to a community college, and obviously, there were many different sets of beliefs being taught by the professors. There were some, of course, that you just put down what you think they wanted to hear on the tests so you would get a good grade. However, some of my favorite professors have been the ones that have very strong points of view, but they are willing to let the students argue why they don't think that view is correct. They encourage this type of debating becuase it means students are thinking for themselves. Okay, sorry for getting off track, back to Ramage...I like, on page 72 where he states that we use rhetoric becuase there is no universal law for proving what theories are right and wrong, but we have to among ourselves what views "are mutally acceptableand represent us as fully as possible in a given circumstance" (72). I really like what I have read so far in this chapter, and I hope I will continue to understand as I continue.
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