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Nonfiction · Philosophy

The Art of Rhetoric

Aristotle
350 BC · 291 pages

Persuasion runs on three things, Aristotle found: the speaker's character, the listener's emotions, and the argument. He shows how to make an audience angry or ashamed, and you notice the machinery everywhere afterward.

★ 7.5
Nonfiction

Gorgias

Plato
380 BC · 113 pages

Callicles tells Socrates that morality is a con the weak run on the strong, who should take whatever they want. Socrates answers that doing wrong harms you more than suffering it ever could.

★ 7.6