The call of conscience, rhetorical interruptions, and the euthanasia controversy

Theorizing Cyberspace: the Idea of Voice Applied to the Internet Discourse

“…By 'hearing', Watts means an active listening that makes up what he calls 'specific experiential encounters in civic life' (Watts, 2001: 185). These meetings cultivate dwelling places where an experience of the passion, joy, and pain of voice arouses and is constitutive of the potential for dialogue (Hyde and Rufo, 2000). Thus, to speak of finding voice is to talk of a sort of collaboration or transaction, not a discovery.…”

Extending the rights of personhood, voice, and life to sensate others: A homology of right to life and animal rights rhetoric

“…We exist in a way that always opens us to the future, to what lies beyond the here and now to a different time and place, to a realm of otherness that is always calling and challenging us to do the right thing ..." (p. 4). Extending Hyde and Rufo (2000), it seems the temporal flow moves forward, and so we treat the terminally ill, disabled, mentally challenged and elderly with care, understanding the limits of our own existence. We interpret in their nearending, in their demise, our own finiteness.…”

“…When Hyde and Rufo (2000) write about existence as the "temporal" quality of human being, they refer to our being called into existence by others: "Certainly, human beings were not 'created' to be so close-minded. We exist in a way that always opens us to the future, to what lies beyond the here and now to a different time and place, to a realm of otherness that is always calling and challenging us to do the right thing ..." (p. 4).…”

Distance Education as a Discursive Practice

“…Hyde and Rufo (2000) have argued that voice opens up the potential of dialog. Indeed, when a student speaks up, there is a necessary assumption that a response is expected.…”