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00:01:13 1 Uses
00:01:22 1.1 Scope
00:08:00 1.2 As a civic art
00:13:09 1.3 As a course of study
00:20:05 1.4 Knowledge
00:21:09 1.4.1 Eloquentia Perfecta
00:21:27 2 History
00:25:01 2.1 Sophists
00:28:41 2.2 Isocrates
00:30:25 2.3 Plato
00:31:49 2.4 Aristotle
00:37:11 3 Canons
00:39:21 3.1 Cicero
00:42:30 3.2 Quintilian
00:45:33 3.3 Medieval to Enlightenment
00:49:51 3.4 Sixteenth century
00:57:17 3.5 Seventeenth century
01:00:25 3.6 Eighteenth century
01:00:51 4 Modern
01:02:22 4.1 Notable modern theorists
01:09:46 4.2 Methods of analysis
01:09:55 4.2.1 Criticism seen as a method
01:13:19 4.2.2 Observation on analytic method
01:15:31 4.3 Strategies
01:16:06 4.4 Criticism
01:17:28 4.4.1 Additional theoretical approaches
01:21:19 4.4.2 Purpose of criticism
01:22:44 5 French
01:31:27 6 Animal rhetoric
01:34:19 7 See also



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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates


SUMMARY
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Rhetoric is the art of using language to convince or persuade. Aristotle defines rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" and since mastery of the art was necessary for victory in a case at law or for passage of proposals in the assembly or for fame as a speaker in civic ceremonies, calls it "a combination of the science of logic and of the ethical branch of politics". Rhetoric typically provides heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations, such as Aristotle's three persuasive audience appeals, logos, pathos, and ethos. The five canons of rhetoric or phases of developing a persuasive speech were first codified in classical Rome: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.
From Ancient Greece to the late 19th century, rhetoric, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic – see Martianus Capella) is one of the three ancient arts of discourse, played a central role in Western education in training orators, lawyers, counsellors, historians, statesmen, and poets.