Rhetoric and Reason

What is logos?

• the art of persuasion

• an appeal to emotions

• the speaker's purpose

• the logic of a speech or essay

Philosopher who coined the term "rhetoric":

• Plato

• Hume

• Emerson

• Aristotle

The art of convincing others to believe something

• lying

• rhetoric

• telos

• fallacy

Argued that people rely more on feelings than thoughts:

• Henry David Thoreau

• David Hume

• Maximus Decimus Meridius

• Queen Elizabeth I

Typically, the most influential rhetorical appeal:

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

• telos

A speaker's purpose

• pathos

• telos

• ethos

• logos

Gesticulating orator

• Winston Churchill

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Adolf Hitler

• Plato

Philosopher who claimed power was the primary motivator of human beings.

• Sir Francis Bacon

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Angela Merkel

• Christine Lagarde

Probably the most underrated rhetorical mode:

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

• telos

"Every child is an artist."

• – Donald J. Trump

• – Margaret Thatcher

• – Pablo Picasso

• – Robert Frost