Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric

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. ...