The Aristotelian Rhetorical System

  1. Special Topics
    1. Of deliberative rhetoric:
      1. Ways and mean, war and peace, defense, imports and exports, legislation
      2. Topics of exhortation and dissuasion: happiness
      3. Topics of expedient and harmful: goods
      4. Forms of government
    1. Of epideictic rhetoric: virtues
    2. Of forensic rhetoric:
      1. Wrongdoers: motives, states of mind, characters
      2. Topics of justice and injustice: causes of human action, pleasure, objects of wrongdoing
      3. Inartistic forensic proofs: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, oaths
      4. Topics of emotions

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