For Aristotle, the rhetorical art (technê) aims to persuade the audience through speech (logos) (1354a13-14). In order to persuade, the speaker must consider how the audience will receive his logos.

While teaching a class on intelligence and analysis last year, I asked my graduate students why the media’s shocking picture of the drowned Syrian boy seemed to have such an incredible effect on ...

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Aristotle and later Cicero wrote about argument being composed of logos, ethos and pathos. Most people know the “logos” as logic and “pathos” as emotion (easy to remember because of words such as ...

2300 years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote down the secret to being a persuasive speaker. This secret forms the basis of nearly every public speaking book written since... In fact, many ...

Karthi Marshan, Marketing Head, Kotak Mahindra Group believes that the art of persuading audiences means using the three basic appeals that Aristotle first described: ethos, pathos, and logos. He ...

One of my very favorite things to do is hang out with my granddaughter “CC” (a nickname I gave her). She is four years old and, although I may be just a little biased, is a cute little princess. On a ...

In preparation for a symposium about teaching writing in the post-truth era, I encountered a little book by one of the symposium participants, Bruce McComiskey. Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition is ...