Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Rhetoric
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Rhetoric.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.
Evidence ledger
- The Summa's treatise on the passions draws occasionally on Aristotle's Rhetoric for the analysis of emotion and persuasion.
Concepts moved from this book
- Absorbed -> The passions of the soul (in the pre-print atlas →)