CHAPTER INDEX
CHAPTER INDEX
Page references are to the edition of Aristotle’s complete works by Immanuel Bekker (Berlin 1831), used by scholars to refer to Aristotle’s works.
BOOK I General Introduction (chs. 1–3)| 1 | Rhetoric as an art of argument similar to dialectic; criticism of existing manuals; usefulness of rhetoric (1354a1–55b25) | |
| 2 | Rhetoric defined as “the faculty of considering what may be persuasive in reference to any subject whatever”; means of persuasion that belong to the art (argument, character, emotion) and those that do not belong to the art (laws, witnesses, etc.); types of rhetorical argument (enthymemes, paradigms, signs) and their premises (1355b26–58a35) | |
| 3 | The three kinds of rhetoric: | |
| deliberative, concerned with what is good and expedient or harmful (chs. 4–8) | ||
| forensic, concerned with what is just or unjust (chs. 10–15) | ||
| epideictic, concerned with what is noble or disgraceful (ch. 9) (1358a36–59a29) |