1 According to Aristotle, for whom is rhetoric useful?

Rhetoric is useful to all men and as Aristotle explains all men make use, more or less, of it, for to a certain extent all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain, them, to defend themselves and to attack others. Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit.

2 What is one way in which rhetoric is useful?

Rhetoric is useful because things that are true and things that are just have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites. It is also as previously stated to discuss statements and to maintain, them, to defend themselves and to attack others.

3 Define rhetoric. Rhetoric is defined as the faculty of observing in any …show more content…
There are three things which inspire confidence in the orator’s own character-the three, namely, that induce us to believe a thing apart from any proof of it: good sense, good moral character, and goodwill. False statements and bad advice are due to one or more of the following three causes. Men either form a false opinion through want of good sense; or they form a true opinion, but because of their moral badness do not say what they really think; or finally, they are both sensible and upright, but not well disposed to their hearers, and may fail in consequence to recommend what they know to be the best choice.

6 How does Aristotle define ‘the emotions’?

Aristotle defines emotions as those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgments, and that are also attended by pain or pleasure. Examples are anger, pity, fear and the like, with their opposites. Aristotle writes about three heads of emotion using anger as the example. The first is what the state of mind of angry person is, (2) who the person is with whom they usually get angry, and (3) on what grounds they get angry with them. For Aristotle until you know all three, you are unable to arouse anger from a