The ethics of rhetoric

The ethics of Rhetoric
The ethics of Rhetoric
By RICHARD M. WEAVER
ὥστε συμβαίνει τὴν ρητορικὴν οἶον
παραφυές τι τῆς διαλεκτικῆς εἶναι καὶ
τῆς περὶ τὰ ἤθη πραγματείας
Thus it happens that rhetoric is an offshoot of dialectic and also of ethical studies.
—Aristotle, Rhetoric
Chicago · HENRY REGNERY COMPANY · 1953
Copyright 1953 by Henry Regnery Company. Copyright under International Copyright Union. Manufactured in the United States of America. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 53-8796.
Second Printing, December, 1963
Acknowledgments with thanks are due the following: Charles Scribner’s Sons for the passage from Allen Tate’s “The Subway,” from Poems 1922-1947 ; Karl Shapiro and Random House, Inc., for the passage from Essay on Rime ; and the Viking Press, Inc., for the passage from Sherwood Anderson’s A Story Teller’s Story .