Aristotle: Rhetoric

Rhetorike

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

Aristotle, author

Canon Rationale

A foundational rhetorical treatise, included for ethos, pathos, logos, enthymeme, audience, civic speech, persuasion, and the later history of criticism and public argument.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 24.

Evidence

handbook: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 'Aristotle's Rhetoric'.
anthology: Internet Classics Archive, 'Rhetoric by Aristotle', translated by W. Rhys Roberts.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read the complete treatise in a specified translation or original Greek edition. Mark it complete when you can explain ethos, pathos, logos, enthymeme, audience, civic speech, and how the work sits beside Poetics and Politics.