Rhetoric

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This classic text teaches the principles of rhetoric, argumentation, and public speaking, foundational for law and political science.

Written sometime in the 4th Century BC, Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” is the definitive treatise on the art of persuasive public speaking. The art of oratorical persuasion was an essential skill for the successful politician during the days of ancient Greece and Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” is considered one of the greatest works from antiquity on the subject. Like many of the surviving works attributable to Aristotle, “Rhetoric” was not intended for public dissemination, but was likely composed from notes taken by Aristotle’s students as they absorbed his lectures. Aristotle provides a detailed analysis of the basic elements of effective speaking in the forum of public debate. Aristotle felt that persuasive discourse was essential for reaching consensus on public issues and, in “Rhetoric”, makes the important and modern argument that such persuasive speaking in the public forum should be based on logic and knowledge rather than on emotion and manipulation. While written over two thousand years ago, the modern student of political science and law will find much that is useful and applicable to their respective disciplines in this work. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

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Weight	0.191 lbs
Dimensions	14 × 0.9 × 21.6 in

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This classic work by Aristotle teaches the art of persuasion and composition, foundational to humanities education.

Aristotle’s Rhetoric is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BC. In English, its title varies: typically it is titled the Rhetoric, the Art of Rhetoric, or a Treatise on Rhetoric. Like the other works of Aristotle that have survived from antiquity, the Rhetoric seems not to have been intended for publication, being instead a collection of his students’ notes in response to his lectures. The treatise shows the development of Aristotle’s thought through two different periods while he was in Athens, and illustrates Aristotle’s expansion of the study of rhetoric beyond Plato’s early criticism of it in the Gorgias (ca. 386 BC) as immoral, dangerous, and unworthy of serious study. Plato’s final dialogue on rhetoric, the Phaedrus (ca.370 BC), offered a more moderate view of rhetoric, acknowledging its value in the hands of a true philosopher (the “midwife of the soul”) for “winning the soul through discourse.” This dialogue offered Aristotle, first a student and then a teacher at Plato’s Academy, a more positive starting point for the development of rhetoric as an art worthy of systematic, scientific study.

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Weight	0.254 lbs
Dimensions	15.2 × 1.1 × 22.9 in

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This book teaches the principles of rhetoric, enhancing a student’s communication, persuasive writing, and critical analysis skills.

Cutting cleanly through the bombast and noise of the moment, Rhetoric puts us in touch with things often taken for granted such as our rights, truths, freedoms, liberties, values, perceptions, fears, security and the world around us. What we believe, in regard to these and other things, shapes our perceptions and our actions. And what we often believe is influenced by rhetoric.