Rhetoric in the Nicomachean Ethics

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This paper contends that the study of rhetoric is too often ignored in today's classrooms. It explains that in the ancient world rhetoric was a major object of study in and of itself. The paper examines rhetoric as it is understood and applied in Aristotle the Nichomachean ethics. The author reviews the intellectual construct informing rhetorical writing and thinking so that the reader may have a better understanding of how this intellectual construct eventually manifests itself on both the printed page and in the spoken word.

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"The study of rhetoric is too often ignored in today's classrooms. However, in the ancient world, rhetoric was a major object of study in and of itself. The following paper will examine rhetoric as it is understood and applied in Aristotle's the Nichomachean ethics. Specifically, the following pages will review the intellectual construct informing rhetorical writing and thinking so that the reader may have a better understanding of how this intellectual construct eventually manifests itself on both the printed page and in the spoken word. As should hopefully become apparent, rhetoric is more than merely a contrived means of persuading people; it is also a way of thinking about things. With this in mind, it is to a discussion of Aristotelian rhetoric that this paper now turns. Aristotle most commonly defines rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion". In other words ..."

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