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Aristotle’s Rhetorica - Charts of Books I & II


Most of Book I of the Rhetorica is a description of the three species of rhetorical discourse with special emphasis on the “topics”appropriate to each. Below is a chart which organizes the content of Book I in terms of these three species.

 

DELIBERATIVE
symbouleutikon

Future
Advantageous/Harmful

EPIDEICTIC
epideiktikon

Present
Honorable/Shameful

JUDICIAL
dikanikon

Past
Just/Unjust

Exhoration | Disuasion

Praise | Blame

Accusation | Defense

1.4 — Political Topics
1.5-6 —Ethical Topics
1.7— Koinon of Degree of Magnitude
1.8 — Topics about Constitutions

1.9 — Useful Topics
1.10 — Topics about Wrongdoing
1.11— Topics about Pleasure
1.12— Topics about Wrongdoers
1.13 — Topics about Justice & Injustice
1.14 — Koinon of Degree of Magnitude
1.15 — Atechnic Pisteis

Just as Book I is organized around the three species of rhetorical discourse, Book II is organized around the three modes of persuasion: pathos, ethos, and logos. Below is a chart which organizes the contents of Book II in terms of these three modes.

PATHOS

ETHOS

LOGOS

2.2 - Anger (orgę)
2.3 - Calmness (praotęs)
2.4 - Friendly Feeling & Enmity (philia & ekhthra)
2.5 - Fear & Confidence (phobos & tharsos)
2.6 - Shame & Shamelessness (aiskhynę & anaiskhyntia)
2.7 - Kindliness & Unkindliness (kharis & akharistia)
2.8 - Pity (eleos)
2.9 - Being Indignant (to nemesan)
2.10- Envy (phthonos)
2.11 - Emulation (zęlos)

2.12 - Character of the Young
2.13 - Character of the Old
2.14 - Character of those in the Prime of Life
2.15 - Character as Affected by Good Birth
2.16 - Character as Affected by Wealth
2.17 - Character as Affected by Power

2.18 - Introduction
2.19 - The Koina
2.20 - Paradigm, or Example
2.21 - Maxim (gnômę)
2.22 - Enthymemes
2.23 - Common Topics (topoi)
2.24 - Real & Apparent Enthymemes
2.25 - Undoing an Opponent’s Enthymemes (lysis)
2.26 - Amplification, Refutation, & Objection not Enthymemes