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Aristotle, student of [[Plato]] and teacher of Alexander the Great, was a Greek philosopher from 384-322 BCE. Aristotle wrote books on politics, ethics, physics, metaphysics, logic, poetry, and, most importantly for our purposes, rhetoric. Aristotle's ''Rhetoric'' is one of the most recent documents that treats the subject as a legitimate discipline and art, or in Aristotle's words, a "techne." Aristotle also provided the world's first definition of rhetoric as "the art of persuasion."
== Additional Works/Publications ==
== Additional Works/Publications ==

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Biography

Aristotle, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, was a Greek philosopher from 384-322 BCE. Aristotle wrote books on politics, ethics, physics, metaphysics, logic, poetry, and, most importantly for our purposes, rhetoric. Aristotle's Rhetoric is one of the most recent documents that treats the subject as a legitimate discipline and art, or in Aristotle's words, a "techne." Aristotle also provided the world's first definition of rhetoric as "the art of persuasion."

Additional Works/Publications

Books

Poetics - For a more in depth analysis see: Aristotle,_Poetics
Rhetoric
Nicomachaean Ethics

Articles/Essays

Further Reading

Other Scholarly Views

Agreement

Those authors that agree with Aristotle.

Opposition

Those authors that disagree with Aristotle.

References

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