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2 maj 2002 · For example, Aristotle’s Rhetoric is inextricably connected with the history of ancient logic (see Allen 2008 and, more generally, ancient logic) and is often taken as an important inspiration for modern argumentation theory (see van Eemeren 2013 and, more generally, dialogical logic).
- The Brevity of The Enthymeme
The Brevity of the Enthymeme. In Rhetoric II.22, 1395b24–26,...
- The Variety of Topoi in The Rhetoric
Typical examples of group (i) can be found in chapters I.5–6...
- Dialogical Logic
Dialogical logic is a dialogue-based approach to logic and...
- Aristotle’s Aesthetics
1. On Poets: How to Judge Poetry?. This work, a dialogue in...
- Ancient Logic
Universal and particular sentences contain a quantifier and...
- Cicero
Indeed, Cicero treats this relation as bringing with it a...
- The Brevity of The Enthymeme
Aristotle believes that rhetoric is above all a matter of discourse, hence the monopoly he attributes to logos, even when rhetoric has to be understood as an interpersonal relationship. In contrast, Plato restricted rhetoric to pathos, because it aims at playing on the emotions of the audience.
Aristotle's Rhetoric has had an enormous influence on the development of the art of rhetoric. Not only authors writing in the peripatetic tradition, but also the famous Roman teachers of rhetoric, such as Cicero and Quintilian, frequently used elements stemming from the Aristotelian doctrine.
2 lip 2019 · Aristotle’s rhetoric, with its emphasis on the enthymeme, differs in its end, final cause, from the practice of the handbook writers and sophists. In Rhetoric I.1 he offers the function of rhetoric as “finding ( idein) in each case the existing means of persuasion,” as opposed to persuading itself.
Aristotle, whose book Rhetorica was to have a major practical and intellectual influence, defined rhetoric as “the study of the available means of persuasion” (1909, p. 5). In many respects, Aristotle’s definition remains as good as any subsequently formulated.
Generally by pathe Aristotle means (in the Rhetoric at least) feelings which influence human judgment or decision-making and which are accompanied by pleasure or pain (1378a).
The revival of rhetoric in current discussions of literature and the humanities is stimulating new interest in a text that has profoundly shaped ideas about language and its uses in the West—Aristotle’s Rhetoric.
