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Philosophical concept

Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasive speech and raises the question of its relation to truth and power.

Works
179
Passages
4,049
Thinkers
43
Traditions
14

Understand uses of the concept

Rhetoric is the art of persuasive speech and raises the question of its relation to truth and power.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 4,049 passages across 179 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: rhétorique, rhetoric, orateur, orator, ῥητορ, ρητορ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 0 passages
  4. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. RhetoricAristotle · 882 passages
  8. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  10. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  11. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  12. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  13. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 336 passages
  14. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 117 passages
  15. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  16. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  17. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  18. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  19. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  20. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  21. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  22. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  23. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  24. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  25. On the OratorCicero · 862 passages
  26. On the LawsCicero · 0 passages
  27. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  28. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages
  29. OratorCicero · 238 passages
  30. PhilippicsCicero · 545 passages