Rhetoric
Demosthenes, a famous Greek orator.
Aristotle’s Rhetoric is about the art of speech, and using words to achieve certain things within a group of people. Aristotle first discusses the difference between rhetoric and dialectic. Dialectic is proves opinions true or false with a basis of facts, including definitions, properties, etc. Rhetoric, on the other hand, is used to support or go against opinions in subjects that cannot be proven or disproven scientifically. Essentially, dialectic uses facts to prove the accuracy of opinions, whereas rhetoric uses persuasion to endorse or refute opinions.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion .Every other art can instruct or persuade about its own particular subject matter…
What makes rhetoric unique is that it is the only science that does not have answers related to itself. One might say that rhetoric is not based on knowledge of facts, but of knowledge in incorporating certain evaluation skills. Rhetoric is therefore not confined to any certain subject matter.
There are three divisions of rhetoric, according to Aristotle, and these depend on the audience the speech is given to. A speech has three elements, the speaker, the subject, and the people spoken to, and the people addressed are the ones who decide what the point of the speech was. The types of rhetoric that Aristotle defines are political, forensic, and ceremonial oratory. Political speaking urges the listeners to either do or not do something, forensic speaking either defends some one, or attacks another person or group, and ceremonial oratory either praises or scolds someone or something. He goes on further to explain the times related to these types of speaking: political speeches are about the future, forensic speeches are about the past and things already done, and ceremonial oratory is about the present.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion .Every other art can instruct or persuade about its own particular subject matter…
What makes rhetoric unique is that it is the only science that does not have answers related to itself. One might say that rhetoric is not based on knowledge of facts, but of knowledge in incorporating certain evaluation skills. Rhetoric is therefore not confined to any certain subject matter.
There are three divisions of rhetoric, according to Aristotle, and these depend on the audience the speech is given to. A speech has three elements, the speaker, the subject, and the people spoken to, and the people addressed are the ones who decide what the point of the speech was. The types of rhetoric that Aristotle defines are political, forensic, and ceremonial oratory. Political speaking urges the listeners to either do or not do something, forensic speaking either defends some one, or attacks another person or group, and ceremonial oratory either praises or scolds someone or something. He goes on further to explain the times related to these types of speaking: political speeches are about the future, forensic speeches are about the past and things already done, and ceremonial oratory is about the present.