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Professor Chaim Perelman was interviewed by the Polish journalist and scholar, Dr. Wiktor Osiatynski1 in the summer of 1973 on the occasion of the International Philosophical Congress held in Varna, Bulgaria. The interview was published soon afterwards in the Polish-language weekly, Kultura. It never was publicized in the west. In this conversation, whose main topic was equality and justice, Perelman formulated some of his ideas concerning social values and their relationship to politics and reform. Here he articulated his ideas on these topics more clearly than they had been set forth in any of his writings. Apparently, in private conversations with friends he expressed his social and political ideas more succinctly than he did in his written texts prepared for formal purposes.
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The quotations in this essay are translated from the manuscript which Dr. Wiktor Osiatynski kindly made available to me. He intends to publish the full text of the conversations with Perelman in his new book. I wish to thank him for the permission to quote his work.
When King Baudouin of Belgium conferred the title of “Baron” on Perelman, he requested the artist to engrave the Menorah on his coat of arms. It is noteworthy that Perelman sought to engage Palestinians in open, public debates with him. They usually refused.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Collected Legal Papers (New York: Peter Smith, 1952), p. 312.
G. W. Hegel. ‘The Science of Logic’, in Collected Works (Berlin: 1833), p. 12.
Heraclitus, “Fragments,” in Milton C. Nahm, Selections from early Greek Philosophy (New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1964), pp. 71–5.
Chaim Perelman, ‘The New Rhetoric. A Theory of Practical Reasoning’ in The Great Ideas Today (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1970). Reprinted in The New Rhetoric and the Humanities (Dordrecht, London: Reidel Publishing Co., 1979), p. 8.
Ibid., p. 9.
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Maneli, M. (1994). Perelman’s Achievement Beyond Traditional Philosophy and Politics. In: Perelman’s New Rhetoric as Philosophy and Methodology for the Next Century. Library of Rhetorics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8287-2_9
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