In this major contribution to philosophy and rhetoric, Eugene Garver shows how Aristotle integrates logic and virtue in his great treatise, the
Rhetoric. He raises and answers a central question: can there be a civic art of rhetoric, an art that forms the character of citizens? By demonstrating the importance of the
Rhetoric for understanding current philosophical problems of practical reason, virtue, and character, Garver has written the first work to treat the
Rhetoric as philosophy and to connect its themes with parallel problems in Aristotle's
Ethics and
Politics. Garver's study will help put rhetoric at the center of investigations of practice and practical reason.