Aristotle and the Debates
Something is persuasive, wrote Aristotle in The Rhetoric“because there is somebody whom it persuades.†(Book I, Chapter 2; in the Penguin Classic translation by H.C. Lawson-Tancred this is...
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Earlier in the week I drew on Aristotle to preview the debate. Aristotle said that persuasion relies on three proofs: ethos, the speaker’s character; pathos, the passion instilled in the audience;...
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This morning I did what is almost certainly my last turn as a guest on XM Radio’s P.O.T.U.S. ’08. While listeners might not have loved hearing Aristotelian analysis of Senator Obama’s infomercial...
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