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2 maj 2002 · 1. Aristotle’s Works on Rhetoric. 2. The Structure of the Rhetoric. 3. Rhetoric as a Counterpart to Dialectic. 4. The Nature and Purpose of Rhetoric. 4.1 The Definition of Rhetoric. 4.2 What Rhetoric Is Useful for. 4.3 Can Aristotle’s Rhetoric Be Misused? 4.4 Is Aristotle’s Conception of Rhetoric Normative? 5. The Three Means of Persuasion.
- 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
Cicero chooses examples that, in combining military with...
- The Brevity of The Enthymeme
2 maj 2002 · The systematical core of Aristotle's Rhetoric is the doctrine that there are three technical means of persuasion. The attribute ‘technical’ implies two characteristics: (i) Technical persuasion must rest on a method, and this, in turn, is to say that we must know the reason why some things are persuasive and some are not.
Philosophers can debate the nature of “self-love” implied in this—from the Aristotelian notion that self-love is necessary for any kind of interpersonal love, to the condemnation of egoism and the impoverished examples that pride and self-glorification from which to base one’s love of another.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. Every other art can instruct or persuade about its own particular subject-matter; for instance, medicine about what is healthy and unhealthy, geometry about the properties of magnitudes, arithmetic ...
20 lis 2023 · What is effective communication? Aristotle discussed this in his major work, the Rhetoric. Nov 20, 2023 • By Luke Dunne, BA Philosophy & Theology. This article aims to explore Aristotle’s theory of rhetoric. We begin by exploring the role of rhetoric in the Ancient World.
Aristotle defines rhetoric as the ability in a particular case to see the available means of persuasion. He defines pisteis (plural of πῐ́στῐς , pístis , lit. ' 'trust in others, faith ; means of persuasion' ' ) as atechnic (inartistic) and entechnic (artistic).
In the first chapter of Bk.I of the Rhetoric, Aristotle complains that cur. rent rhetorical treatises place too much emphasis on influencing the. emotions of hearers ("judges").
