Aristotle on the virtues of rhetoric

Review of Metaphysics

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 715-733

  Rorty, Amélie ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

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15. Contra William Fortenbaugh, Aristotle on Emotion (London: Duckworth, 2002)
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