Comparing Plato And Aristotle On Rhetoric

Although the Philosopher, Aristotle, was one of Plato’s brightest students in his academy, their views weren’t always exactly the same, though they were somewhat similar. After his Professor, Plato, passed away, Aristotle followed in his footsteps and started his own school called the Lyceum. In his school, one of the things Aristotle taught was one that he and Plato had slight mixed view about, which was Rhetoric. Plato’s and Aristotle’s views on rhetoric are similar but have slight differences. The theories of Plato and Aristotle are so similar, that there are hardly any distinguishing between the two, other than Plato’s vies view on rhetoric are more moral or philosophical based, while Aristotle’s views on the subject were more based on science and logical thinking. Plato’s views on rhetoric focuses on the values and morals, conveying the truth already known, and concerned on eliminating peoples decisions by telling them the reality of the truth instead of what science says. He believes that rhetoric is simply the art of converting people, even though the speaker might not even know why or how he needs to persuade people. Plato was the type of Philosopher that wrote about the focus on the mind and the world of ideal forms. Plato’s arguments were
While Plato’s arguments are prescriptive, Aristotle’s writings are almost all descriptive and describing, organizing and classifying their subjects. Though Aristotle is not all science, he agrees with Plato on the persuasive appeal. Aristotle developed three categories of persuasive appeal: Pathos, logs, and ethos. Pathos appeals to a person’s emotions, logos appeals to logic and scientific reasoning, and ethos appeals based on the character of the speaker. Aristotle was the type of philosopher that writes any statement and applies it to scientific events or reasoning to give the reader