Summary Of Aristotle's Rhetoric

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Aristotle uses his book Rhetoric, to teach his audience about the means of which we go about persuading others. He expands on this idea by speaking about the three means of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos. Each book is focused on the three different modes of persuasion, with this paper mainly focusing on the second one, pathos, and more specifically, the section on friendship. Through Aristotle’s Rhetoric, we can better understand how friendship arises, what the purpose of friends are in rhetoric, and what causes enmity. Before we can explore the purpose of friendship while engaging in rhetoric, we first must define what friendship means to Aristotle. He lays it out perfectly by saying, “We may describe friendly feeling towards anyone

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