A technical and philosophical treatise that scientifically develops the laws of rhetoric and the phenomena that arise from them. Book II: The passions (emotions) and the aesthetic effects they can produce. The ethics. Connection of the character of the rhetor with the technical evidential means. General forms into which rhetorical doubt is reduced.

Aristotle, son of the physician Nicomachus, was born in Stagira in 384 BC. Information about the early years of his life is minimal. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy. He remained there for twenty years, from 367 to 348 BC, until the death of Plato. Then Aristotle left for Assos in Troas and after a three-year stay there, he went to Lesbos and then to Macedonia, where he took on the education of the royal child Alexander.

When his student ascended to the throne, Aristotle settled in Athens and founded his school, the Lyceum. After the death of Alexander (323 BC), the philosopher's stay in Athens became difficult. He was forced to seek refuge in Chalcis, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322.

As a universal spirit, Aristotle created a vast and valuable body of philosophical and scientific work. Epistemology, logic, theology, physics, biology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics are the main fields of knowledge he researched and studied. The Alexandrian Hermippus estimated the works of Aristotle to number 400. To this day, catalogs have survived that include 143 titles of his works.

Diogenes Laertius estimated the number of lines in Aristotle's writings to be 440,000. The impact of his work on the formation of global thought was, for centuries, and remains, strong.