![]() ![]() In this lesson we will look at rhetoric and poetics especially to consider those tools. The third comes from poetics: the metaphor. There are going to be three of those tools, two of them from rhetoric: the enthymeme and the argument by example. Some of the tools of reasoning that are most appropriate to rhetorical and poetical speech are also helpful for philosophy and theology. There is another reason, however, for studying these two books. ![]() ![]() This lesson will focus on Aristotle's books, the Rhetoric and the Poetics. ![]() Studying rhetoric and poetics completes our overview of Aristotle's logic. The science of poetics discusses this action of reason. Reason also acts in poetry, or imaginative literature, to produce something beautiful and delightful. Rhetoric directs our reason when it considers moral and political actions. But we also said there was a looser sense of that term "logic," in which logic is broadly understood to be the art that simply directs the actions of reason. In the first eleven lessons we looked at the treatises in Aristotle's Organon that make up logic taken in the strict sense: logic as the art which directs the actions of reason in coming to know the truth. In this, our twelfth and final lesson, we will say something about rhetoric and poetics. ![]()
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