In the Rhetoric, Plato Wrote, “The Character [Ethos] of the Speaker

question 53

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In the Rhetoric, Plato wrote, “The character [ethos] of the speaker is a cause of persuasion when the speech is so uttered as to make him worthy of belief. ... His character [ethos] is the most potent of all the means to persuasion.”

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