and they formed part of the preliminary work
for the ‘Poetics’ in which Aristotle sketched his account of the nature of
tragedy, and for the third book of the ‘Rhetoric’, which is a doctrine on
language and style.
According to Aristotle,
Rhetoric is also connected with logic, of course, in the ‘Gryluss’,
‘Aristotle claimed that Rhetoric should not excite the passions by fine language, but
should rather persuade the reason by fine arguments.
| Aristotle had profound love for Plato and his philosophy. On death of Plato, he wrote a moving elegy in which he praised him as a man ‘whom it is not right for evil men even to praise; who alone or first of mortals proved clearly, by his own life and by the course of his arguments, that a man becomes good and happy at the same time. |
Aristotle believed that knowledge must be systematic and unified. Its structure is given by logic, and its unity rests at bottom on ontology. Aristotle was equally impressed as Plato by the power of axiomatisation, but did not believe that all knowledge could be founded upon a single set of axioms, because of apparent independence of the sciences.
