Rhetoric (Treatise on Rhetoric)
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- Theodore Buckley
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~210,000 words · 1,012 passages
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What it is about
The Rhetoric: what persuasion is, by what means it works, and why it is not the same as deception.
Context and history
Aristotle distinguishes three sources of persuasion — the character of the speaker, the state of mind of the hearer, and the argument itself — and defines the enthymeme, the reasoning that leaves a premise unsaid because the audience already holds it. The second book is in fact the earliest systematic treatise on the emotions that survives: it examines anger, fear, shame, envy, not as passions but as states that words can produce and undo. It reads best alongside the Poetics and the Topics.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
POSS HS SESSESSSESSCSSESEST SET SSSESCE SCOSSSSOES €8ZSA* HF ry Mh _E- HARRIS oS A -e Maes LOEEE’S TREATISE ON RHETORIC LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH HOBBES’ ANALYSIS, EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE GREEK DEFINITIONS. ALSO, THE POETIC OF ARISTOTLE, UITARALLY TRANSLATED, WITH A SELECTION OF NOTES, AN ANALYSIP AND QUESTIONS. BY THEODORE BUCKLEY, B.A. OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD, LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS ΝᾺ ae WARS ms ς om, % X AT La ἃ em +) [Reprinted from Sterectype plates.} BR AR ty 9 ERs iry of TOROS TO THE READER. In this third edition, the translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric has bee=. again carefully compared with the Greek, and revised and corrected throughout. Numerous ex~ planatory and illustrative notes have also been added; as well as a marginal analysis, which it is presumed will be found of much service to the reader. The famous Thomas Hobbes’ Brief of the Art of Rhetoric’, “containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three books on that subject,” and forming the best summary of this noble science, has been again reprinted from the scarce edition published at London in 1681. A body of Analytical Questions, for self-examination, has also been appended. | With these improvements, the Editor confidently opes that the present volume will be found to contain, not only the most faithful version of the Rhetoric of Aristotle, but the best helps for the d: e understanding and retaining the sense thereof. Ozford. November, 1846. In the present new edition of the Oxford version of the Rhetoric, it has been thought advisable not to interfere either with the text, notes, or Questions, all being of acknowledged excellence. But, as Hobbes, by the IV TO THE READER. quaintness of his Analysis, at times lost sigh
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