Aristotle's Rhetoric.

Meyer, Michel

The article discusses rhetoric, which is a philosophy discipline. It says that rhetoric for philosopher Plato was verbal and manipulative and irrational while Aristotle thought rhetoric as a rationality based on a specific form of reasoning and enthymematic. It mentions that Aristotle believes rhetoric is a matter of discourse and attributed the monopoly to logos. It adds that ethos, logos, and pathos are the fundamental elements of the rhetorical relationship.

RHETORIC; PHILOSOPHY; PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; ARISTOTLE, 384-322 B.C.; REASON; REASONING; LOGOS (Philosophy); PATHOS

Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 2, p249

0167-7411

Academic Journal

10.1007/s11245-012-9132-0