Rhetoric
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Rhetoric is Aristotle’s foundational treatise on the art of persuasive speaking and writing, analyzing how ethos, pathos, and logos function in effective argumentation.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek text
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philosophical treatise → work by Aristotle → |
| analyzes |
character of the speaker
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emotional appeals → enthymeme → example as rhetorical proof → logical argument → modes of persuasion → persuasive speaking → persuasive writing → rhetorical proofs → |
| author | Aristotle → |
| dateWritten | 4th century BCE → |
| defines |
deliberative rhetoric
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epideictic rhetoric → judicial rhetoric → |
| discusses |
arrangement of arguments
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delivery in oratory → style in speech → |
| dividedInto |
Book I
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Book II → Book III → |
| focusesOn |
ethos
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logos → pathos → |
| genre |
philosophy of language
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political philosophy → rhetorical theory → |
| influenced |
Cicero
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Quintilian → Renaissance rhetoric → medieval rhetorical theory → modern rhetorical studies → |
| influencedBy |
Plato
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Sophistic rhetoric → |
| keyConcept | three genres of rhetoric → |
| language | Ancient Greek → |
| mainSubject |
argumentation
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persuasion → rhetoric → |
| originalTitle | Τέχνη ῥητορική → |
| partOf |
Aristotle's writings
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surface form: "Aristotle's corpus"
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| philosophicalTradition | Peripatetic school → |
| placeOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form: "Ancient Greece"
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| relatedWork |
Nicomachean Ethics
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Poetics → Topics → |
| title | Rhetoric → |