Rhetoric is truth, honest, and just by Aristotle’s notion. There are "there divisions; the speaker's power of evincing a personal character which will make his speech credible (ethos ); his power of stirring the emotions of his hearers (pathos ); his power of proving a truth, or an apparent truth, by means of persuasive arguments (logos )" (Chapter 2).
Rhetoric is just a way to express oneself in a deeper manor than other styles of writing. Rhetoric allows the author to put them self into the paper more than most types of writing. Rhetoric asks the author to display his ethos, and explain his thoughts in greater depth. Rhetoric allows the author to free write, to write without strict guidelines, to make the writing their own. Rhetoric allows the author freedom to convey any topic in their own format.
Like ethos and ethics, rhetoric has no one path. Everyman can choose for himself which path to take and how to convey an ethical/ethos life. Rhetoric is just the type of paper that expresses an ethical/ethos stance.
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The Aristotle of the twenty-first century!
I know what you mean! When i read it today i was amazed at how these things are all related, and the effects they have on one another.
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