Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric
ISBN: 9780198716266
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy History of Philosophy;

For Aristotle, arousing the passions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction. On that basis a skill in doing so can be something valuable, an appropriate constituent of the kind of expertise in rhetoric that deserves to be cultivated and given expression in a well-organised state. Such are Jamie Dow's principal claims in Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric. He attributes to Aristotle a normative view of rhetoric andits role in the state, and ascribes to him a particular view of the kinds of cognitions involved in the passions.

Jamie Dow studied for his PhD at the University of St Andrews before coming to Leeds as a Lecturer in Ethics. His principal research interests are in ancient philosophy. His work tends to centre around philosophical issues related to human and animal psychology, especially the emotions, and to normative issues about persuasion. His articles have appeared in publications such as Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and Phronesis.

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