Concept
Rhetoric (Aristotle)
Overview
Aristotle's Rhetoric (Ancient Greek: Ῥητορική, romanized: Rhētorikḗ; Latin: Ars Rhetorica) is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BCE. The English title varies: typically it is Rhetoric, the Art of Rhetoric, On Rhetoric, or a Treatise on Rhetoric.
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_Soc._ In my opinion then, Gorgias, the whole of which rhetoric is a part is not an art at all, but the habit of a bold and ready wit, which knows how to manage mankind: this habit I sum up under the word ‘flattery’; and it appears to me to have many other parts, one of which is cookery, which may seem to be an art, but, as I maintain, is only an experience or routine and not an art:—another part is rhetoric, and…
Plato, The dialogues of Plato in five volumes, Vol. 2
Names Rhetoric several times; states what Rhetoric is.
SOCRATES: And therefore persuade us of them? GORGIAS: Yes. SOCRATES: Then arithmetic as well as rhetoric is an artificer of persuasion? GORGIAS: Clearly.
Plato, Gorgias
Names Rhetoric several times; states what Rhetoric is.
(2) Notwithstanding, to stir the earth a little about the roots of this science, as we have done of the rest, the duty and office of rhetoric is to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of the will. For we see reason is disturbed in the administration thereof by three means—by illaqueation or sophism, which pertains to logic; by imagination or impression, which pertains to rhetoric; and by passion or…
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
States what Rhetoric is; names Rhetoric several times.
Philosophers who discussed Rhetoric (Aristotle)
Related ideas
- Telos
- Faith
- Gorgias (dialogue)
- Classical Athens
- Academy
- Isocrates
- Paradigm
- Hyperbole
- Eudaimonia
- Monarchy
- Oligarchy
- Plato
- Persuasion
- Lyceum (classical)
- Socrates
- Golden mean (philosophy)
- Aristotle
- Petrus Ramus
- Logos
- Martin Heidegger
- Aristocracy
- Poetics (Aristotle)
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Logic
Place in the tradition
Part of Heraclitus.