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| 4 | Subjects of deliberation the orator must know about: ways and means, war and peace, defense of the country, imports and export, legislation (1359a30–60b3) |
| 5 | Commonly accepted views about happiness and its components (1360b4–62a14) |
| 6 | Commonly accepted views about what is good or bad for people (1362a15–63b4) |
| 7 | Comparisons of things that are more or less good, more or less bad (1363b5–65b20) |
| 8 | Also useful to know for orators: the different forms of government (1365b21–66a22) |
| 9 | Commonly accepted views about what is noble: virtue in general and particular virtues, also whatever leads to virtue, is a manifestation of it, or brings honor, etc.; amplification as particularly useful in epideictic rhetoric (1366a23–68a37) |
| 10 | Wrongdoing defined as “voluntarily causing injury contrary to the law”; causes of human action, involuntary or voluntary; aims of human action: either what is or appears as good, or what is or appears as pleasant (1368b1–69b32) |
| 11 | Pleasure and what is pleasant; what is good or appears as good (already discussed, cf. chs. 5, 6) (1369b33–72a3) |
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| 12 | State of mind and circumstances of wrongdoers and their victims (1372a4–73a38) |
| 13 | Just and unjust action; equity as a corrective for written law (1373b1–74b23) |
| 14 | Greater and lesser wrong actions (1374b24–75a21) |
| 15 | Means of persuasion outside the art: laws, witnesses, contracts, torture, oaths (1375a22–77b11 |
| 1 | Introduction: emotions and character of a speaker as influences on judgment. Each emotion will be considered under three aspects: | |
| the state of mind that leads to the emotion | ||
| the persons at whom the emotion is directed | ||
| the occasions that give rise to the emotion | ||
| The character of the speaker as a means of persuasion depends on three qualities: good sense, virtue, and goodwill. Good sense and the virtues have already been discussed (1.9); goodwill and friendship will be treated among the emotions (2.4) (1377b16–78a30) | ||
| 2 | Anger (1378a31–80a4) | |
| 3 | Mildness (1380a5–b33) | |
| 4 | Love or friendship and enmity (1380b34–82a20) | |
| 5 | Fear and confidence (1383a21–b11) | |
| 6 | Shame and shamelessness (1383b12–85a15) | |
| 7 | Gratitude and ingratitude (1385a16–b10) | |
| 8 | Pity (1385b11–86b8) | |
| 9 | Indignation (1386b9–87b20) |