Aristotle

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Contents 1 Biography 2 Additional Works/Publications 2.1 Books 3 Further Reading 4 Other Scholarly Views 4.1 Agreement 4.2 Opposition 5 References 6 External Links

Biography

Aristotle (384-322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great, was a Greek philosopher. He wrote many books on politics, ethics, physics, metaphysics, logic, poetry, and, most importantly for the purposes of rhetorical theory, 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" -- (full text)

Rhetoric -- (full text)

Nicomachaean Ethics (full text)

"Politics" (full text)

"Metaphysics" (full text)

"Physics" (full text)

"Organon" (Logic) (full text)

"On the Soul" (full text)

Further Reading

Other Scholarly Views

Agreement

Those authors that agree with Aristotle.

Opposition

Those authors that disagree with Aristotle.

References

External Links