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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.