Rhetoric in history, from Aristotle to Perelman. The contemporary revival of rhetoric

Three great moments mark rhetoric from its very beginnings. The Platonic moment, with its emphasis on the role of the audience (manipulation of the mind); the Aristotelian moment, with its emphasis on reasoning and language; the Ciceronian moment, with its emphasis on the credibility and virtue of the speaker (often linked, for the Romans, to his place in the social hierarchy). Respectively, these three dimensions have forever defined the role of pathos, logos andethos in rhetoric. How can we define rhetoric today to include all these points of view? This is the role (and the attraction) of an approach centered on the issues to be faced as a measure of the distance between individuals. The purpose of rhetoric is to negotiate it. The unifying aspect of questioning makes it possible to structure pathos, logos andethos- that is, others, the world and the self - within a conception that integrates all the definitions of rhetoric given in the past.