Rhetoric Paperback – August 21, 2013

Unless you are religious and have a favorite tome for that sort of thing, this is the most important book you will ever read. Such a spectacular study of humanity, so accurate despite so many centuries and cultures between. The wisdom of so many holy books without the need for spectacle, guilt, hyperbole, or esoteric didacticism. It cuts to the chase and beautifully illustrates practically everything that's gone wrong with modern politics, everywhere. It's nice, in a way, to see that people haven't changed a whit since Aristotle's time, but it's depressing to see that people haven't changed a whit since Aristotle's time either. It's not an easy read; it's hard to grapple with the ideas; and you have to want to improve yourself to bother with it. But worth it, if for no other reason this book will show you how to spot the B.S. pretty much everyone is dishing out in this hyper spun world of ours.

Clear understanding of key words and enabling to understand how virtues result in happiness, courage to live a praise worthy life from friends and others.

Thank you!.

This book has some issues with the way it was printed:*There's no name on the spine*The image on the cover is stretched*There are issues with spacing and kerning in the text*A lot of section titles are on the bottom of one page with the section itself on the next page*The font and layout seem cramped, a dubious choice for dense writing like Aristotle's*There are no page numbers*There is no preface or appendixHowever, this book was $6 new. You get what you pay for and I feel like I cannot complain too much about poor quality when I spent the same amount you'd expect to pay for a beaten up old book with half a dozen stickers on it. If I were to wager a guess, I would say that the publisher had x amount of a certain type of paper left over from some other project, wanted to boost their numbers by the end of the quarter, so they threw this on the press after an extremely short editing period to make a few extra bucks.

Great quality book. Thank you for the quick delivery.

Loeb translations are always well printed and good. I would caution readers of all the reviews of this book, because many of them sound as if they are comments on other editions, which is typical of Amazon reviews of books that are printed in multiple editions by various translators. I think every reviewer should specifically name the edition of the book reviewed.

A classic in ancient Greek thought. Aristotle introduced the qualification of 'necessary' and 'possible' premises. And his book on Rhetoric deals on this teaching as well as many others. Shows where he differs from classic Platonian thought and where he agrees. An important work, as all of his works most undoubtedly are as they influenced the Western world for over a thousand years.

Aristotle's Rhetoric is a wonderful read, and one which is still highly relevant today. It should be noted that, despite the blurbs on the product page, the Kindle edition is not the Kennedy translation. The Kennedy translation is really worth the extra money for the print edition if you have a serious interest in the subject, but the Kindle edition is a decent (and cheap!) introduction to the text, although it lacks annotations, and any sort of introductions.