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The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics ... Translated from the Greek
The Rhetoric Poetic and Nicomachean Ethics Translated from the Greek Author:Aristotle Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: city or nation, than of a man, or one family; hence, the political part of moral philosophy is more excellent and divine than the economical part, or than the pa... more »rt which relates to man considered with reference to himself. . I shall only observe farther, that the Nico- inachean Ethics are so inscribed, because they were written by Aristotle to his son Nicoma- chus ; that the reader will derive great advantage by occasionally consulting the translation of the Paraphrase of an anonymous Greek writer on these ethics, by Mr. Bridgman, as this translation is at once perspicuous, accurate, and elegant; and that Aristotle, in his moral treatises, has delivered a system of ethics in all its parts scientific and perfect. chapter{Section 4THE ART OF RHETORIC. Book I. CHAPTER I. Hhetorig reciprocates with dialectic [or logic); For both are conversant with such particulars, as being common may after a manner be known by all men, and pertain to no definite science. Hence, all men in a certain respect participate of both these ; for all men to a certain extent endeavour to examine and sustain an argument, to defend and accuse. With respect to the multitude, therefore, some of them do these things casually; but others through custom from habit. Because, however, this is possible in both ways, it is evident that these particulars may,also be reduced to a certain method. For it is possible to survey the cause why some men render what they assert probable, from custom, and others from chance. But all men now will acknowledge that a thing of this kind is the work of art. Arlst. Vol. . A At present, therefore, those who compose the arts of orations [i. e. who unfold the art of rhetoric,] explain only a small part of rhetoric. For credibility is the only artificial part of the ...« less