Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character

In this major contribution to philosophy and rhetoric, Eugene Garver shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his great treatise, the *Rhetoric.* He raises and answers a central question: can there be a civic art of rhetoric, an art that forms the character of citizens? By demonstrating the importance of the *Rhetoric* for understanding current philosophical problems of practical reason, virtue, and character, Garver has written the first work to treat the *Rhetoric* as philosophy and to connect its themes with parallel problems in Aristotle's *Ethics* and *Politics.* Garver's study will help put rhetoric at the center of investigations of practice and practical reason.