The famous points like arguing from ethos (roughly, character/credibility), logos (logic), and pathos (emotional appeals, especially around harm and suffering) — these are well-known enough, but Aristotle went into a lot of specific and counterintuitive examples.
I feel like I got a lot from reading it that I haven’t seen elsewhere, but it does oscillate a bit between a dry and slogging type read and some real gems of insight. Probably worth checking out if you’re interested in the topic — I don’t think summaries do it justice; there’s some particularly good and non-obvious examples.
Marvelous post.
It’s worth reading Aristotle’s Rhetoric at some point —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric_(Aristotle)
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/rhetoric.html
The famous points like arguing from ethos (roughly, character/credibility), logos (logic), and pathos (emotional appeals, especially around harm and suffering) — these are well-known enough, but Aristotle went into a lot of specific and counterintuitive examples.
I feel like I got a lot from reading it that I haven’t seen elsewhere, but it does oscillate a bit between a dry and slogging type read and some real gems of insight. Probably worth checking out if you’re interested in the topic — I don’t think summaries do it justice; there’s some particularly good and non-obvious examples.
I read it and didn’t see much there I didn’t know before, but I can give it another shot.