We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
My goal is to invite readers to think along with me and draw their own conclusions.
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.
My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.