Rhetoric, Poetics, and Logic, Aristotle
Rhetoric, Poetics, and Logic, Aristotle
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Rhetoric, Poetics, and Logic

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 15 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy


Synopsis

Aristotle's influence upon modern culture has become more and more important in recent years. His contribution to the sum of all wisdom dominates all our philosophy and even provides direction for much of our science. And all effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotles three basic principles of effective argument which form the spine of rhetoric: "ethos," the impact of the speaker's character upon the audience; "pathos," the arousing of the emotions; and "logos," the advancement of pertinent arguments. In his discussion, Aristotle observes several aspects of epic poetry, lyric poetry, and comedy. He maintains that poetry has greater philosophical value because it deals with universals, while history states particular facts.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon on September 26, 2024

This was hard to get through; Aristotle is unquestionably a genius, and I am unquestionably not. So I have to go really broad - and just talk about what I was able to take away. The modalities of communication are complex, and those who understand this are able to more cogently get their point(s) ac......more

Goodreads review by Tom on February 20, 2020

Rethoric made it worth it, logic should not be consumed in audiobook form. Poetics has little modern use.......more

Goodreads review by Zarathustra on July 04, 2020

Aristotle is a based logician :) I find the way he dissects Posterior Analytics quite inspiring. He goes fairly deeply into the distinction between scientific demonstration and reasoning about universals (and apparently one needs to look in Metaphysics for discussions of the basic principles, as sci......more

Goodreads review by Porter on December 28, 2023

There are definitely some good morsels and grains in here but man is it a dry read. What Aristotle did in the time period in which he did it is pretty remarkable and he served to be a foundational point for logic and philosophical thought to build off of but these works must be taken with a grain of......more

Goodreads review by Christian on January 12, 2025

Between it being a slog, the logical holes, and redundancy, this one is getting two stars......more