![]() ![]() In conversation it is the person that comes first. In a debate one feels that an argument has priority. ![]() This is why true conversation is not quite like a debate. How often, really, do we appreciate why someone thinks as they do? And more than that it illuminates the intimate why: the motives, fears, hopes, associations, key experiences, leaps of logic and quiet deductions – all of the things that add up to explaining why a serious person holds the view they do. Classical conversation is the mutual aid in the joint pursuit of the truth.Īn interim benefit of such conversation is the light it sheds on what decent people really actually do disagree about. ![]() But with time and care these failings can be made good. ![]() When intelligent, reasonable and cultivated people disagree there is almost always some hidden confusion or failure of evidence that explains the lack of harmony. We long for the truth of our selves to be grasped and liked by another person.Ī classical conception of conversation takes convergence as its final – if distant – goal. Secretly we yearn for real conversation, because we long to encounter the best and most substantial versions of other people. ![]()
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