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On Talkativeness
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Series: Eris Gems
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ISBN13: 9781916809451
Publisher: Eris
Published: Jun 24 2025
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.20 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
It is a troublesome and difficult task that philosophy has in hand when it undertakes to cure garrulousness. For the remedy, words of reason, requires listeners; but the garrulous listen to nobody, for they are always talking.
Plutarch's essay takes on an unusual philosophical problem: people who talk too much. In part an erudite and highly amusing history of the chatterbox as a social phenomenon, On Talkativeness also finds its way to the heart of much more serious issues--among them the nature of sociability and civic obligation. Careless talk, it turns out, really can cost lives, and quite possibly a great deal more.Also from
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