This technical and philosophical work scientifically develops the laws of rhetoric and the phenomena arising from them.

Book I: The Relevance of Rhetoric and Dialectic. Rhetoric as the ability to find persuasive arguments for a given issue. Advisory, celebratory, and judicial rhetorical discourse. The relationship between the speaker and the audience.

Aristotle, son of the physician Nicomachus, was born in Stagira in 384 BC. Very little information is available about the early years of his life. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy. He stayed there for twenty years, from 367 until 348 BC, when Plato died. At that time, Aristotle left for Assos in Troas, and after three years there, he went to Lesbos and then to Macedonia, where he took on the education of the royal heir Alexander.

When his student rose 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 flee to Chalcis, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322.

With a universal spirit, Aristotle created a vast and valuable philosophical and scientific body of work. Epistemology, logic, theology, physics, biology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics are the main fields of knowledge he researched and studied.

Alexandrian Hermippus estimated Aristotle's works at 400. To this day, lists have survived, including 143 titles of his works. Diogenes Laertius estimated the number of lines in Aristotle's writings at 440,000. The influence of his work on the formation of global thought was strong for centuries and remains so.

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