Aristotle's Rhetoric: The Philosophy of Persuasion.
Aristotle's Rhetoric as a Work of Philosophy Eugene Garver Aristotle's Rhetoric stands out as an anomaly in his corpus; his other works - except for other anomalies like the Constitution of Athens - are explorations of philosophie and scientific problems, while the Rhetoric looks like a handbook teaching speakers how to be persuasive.
This volume, composed of essays by internationally renowned philosophers and classicists, provides the first extensive examination of Aristotle’s Rhetoric and its subject matter in many years. One aim is to locate both Aristotle’s treatise and its subject within the more general context of his philosophical treatment of other disciplines, including moral and political theory as well as.
David J. Furley and Alexander Nehamas, Eds. Aristotle's Rhetoric: Philosophical Essays. D. C. Mirhady - 1996 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 29:441-443.
Given that there are so many variations on pages numbers and translations in Aristotle, it's common practice to cite the Bekker number in Aristotle's work. The Bekker numbers are usually embedded in the text or the margins of the work, and take the form of, say, 1146a5 or 71a20-35.
Aristotle handled the topic of infinity in Physics and in Metaphysics. He distinguished between actual and potential infinity. Actual infinity is completed and definite, and consists of infinitely many elements. Potential infinity is never complete: elements can be always added, but never infinitely many.
Aristotle first used the term ethics to name a field of study developed by his predecessors Socrates and Plato.In philosophy, ethics is the attempt to offer a rational response to the question of how humans should best live. Aristotle regarded ethics and politics as two related but separate fields of study, since ethics examines the good of the individual, while politics examines the good of.
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