title: The Art of Rhetoric (Penguin Classics)
author:  Aristotle 
description: <b>Aristotle</b> was born in 384BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens at the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and some time later became tutor to Alexander the Great. On Alexander's succession to the throne of Macedonia in 336, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute, the Lyceum. After Alexander's death he was driven out of Athens and fled to Chalcis in Euboea where he died in 322. His writings profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy. <br><br><b>Hugh Lawson-Tancred</b> was born in 1955 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Departmental Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck College in the University of London. He has published extensively on Aristotle and Plato and is currently engaged in research in computational linguistics. He translates widely from the Slavonic and Scandinavian languages. He is married with a daughter and two sons and lives in North London and Somerset.
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  # Rhetoric
  
  
  ### Aristotle
  
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  ##### translated by W. Rhys Roberts
  
  
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  Book I
  
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  RHETORIC the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such
  things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to
  no definite science. Accordingly all men make use, more or less, of both; 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. Both ways being
  possible, the subject can plainly be handled systematically, for it is
  possible to inquire the reason why some speakers succeed through practice and
  o