Question: Platons influence in Aristotles rethoric

Platon: Sokrates most faithful discipline

Sokrates was the first significant philosopher who dealt with rethoric. His main rethorical teaching was:

-understanding the character of audience by getting acquinted with their souls

-adjusting the speech to the character.

Thhe feature of Platons rethoric was:

-underlining the investigation of soul instead of technical details.

Aristotle: Platons most talented discipline

He has been listening to Platons teachings for 20 years.He approximates the rethoric from another point of view: he emphasisis the features of the human soul that would be important for persuasion:

-pathos(influences on the emotions)

-ethos(characters).

In his opinion its important to get acquinted with why some people succeed because of routine and others because of coincidence.

Answer:

Aristotles rethoric varies from Platons rethoric in:

Aristotles opinion:

-just the rethoric does not produce persuasion

-it can be made methodically only

-he rejects the emotional manipulation.