Clark Honors College

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The R.D. Clark Honors College is a small liberal arts college located within the University of Oregon. The oldest four-year public honors college in the nation, the Clark Honors College allows students to supplement their education at the greater university by meeting their general education requirements with an intensive Honors College curriculum specifically designed for high-achieving students.

In addition, it provides them the opportunity to participate in research-oriented studies through discussion-based colloquia, and the completion of an undergraduate thesis, which students must defend before a faculty panel. Thus, with an emphasis on small class sizes, high levels of interaction between students and faculty, and academic excellence, the Clark Honors College aims to create a community of scholars where students can develop fundamental intellectual skills in the highest and most challenging way possible while participating in a supportive and collective atmosphere.

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    The Jewish Countermodel: Talmudic Argumentation, the New Rhetoric Project, and the Classical Tradition of Rhetoric
    (The Religious Communication Association, 2003) Frank, David A.
    Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts- Tyteca's New Rhetoric Project (NRP) helped revive the study of rhetoric in the twentieth century. Although some believe their work is largely a reiteration of Aristotle's rhetoric and that Perelman owes a significant debt to Aristotle, I present evidence in this paper that Perelman was quite critical of the Western tradition of philosophy and of Aristotle's logic and rhetoric. Perelman turned to Jewish thinking and Talmudic argumentation as a countermodel. Jewish metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, and argument are the central touchstones of the NRP.