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Luis Arredondo Professor Kinkead Composition I 11 September 2016 Aristotle Summary Aristotle Rhetoric Book I takes a look into the social implications of rhetoric, while describing attributes of rhetoric. Aristotle clarifies the difference between dialectic and rhetoric, dialect having overall implications of the message and rhetoric having particular set of goals. The main goal of Rhetoric is to persuade the audience on a large scale. Ethos, logos, and pathos are necessary for persuading the audience due to ethos establishing credibility for the speaker, logos giving the speech a logical approach, pathos giving the audience an emotional perspective. Rhetoric has three different forms speech, political, forensic, and epideictic. Political …show more content…

This later brings the question of more good or less good, or comparison of the two to determine which is better. Understanding the forms of government can be an effective tool for politicians especially when combined with persuasion. Politicians have to understand the characteristics of democracy, oligarchy, and aristocracy, and monarchy. In a democracy the citizens elect government officials into office, a monarchy is a form of government where one individual rules, in an aristocracy power is determined by class and education, in an oligarchy is a group of people rule over all. Epideictic speakers Praising virtues is a good thing, as virtues brings many attributes such as justice, temperance, courage, wisdom, and many more. Justice is a good virtue because it gives people control on what they follow regarding in the manner of law. Courage as a virtue, allows people to achieve gaat thing in risky situations. Forensic speakers look into “wrong doing” and have determined what are the cause of the crimes and have separated them into two categories, “involuntary” and “voluntary”. Involuntary is composed of three things chance, nature, and compulsion. Voluntary is composed of habit, reasoning, anger, and appetite. Involuntary is actions that cannot be avoided while voluntary can be