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According to a college freshman student, it is believed that Aristotle’s was known as one of the first ancient Greeks scholars, in the world, to have been a psychologist. In fact, Aristotle’s treatise on rhetoric has been called the “world’s first discussion of psychology.” “The psychological aspect of his treatise comprises about twenty of the several hundred pages Aristotle devoted to his discussion of the “available means of persuasion, one way of defining the term rhetoric ” (Tefertiller 67). Nevertheless, psychology depicts one of the oldest living contents on what Aristotle called an “invention”–meaning the right things to tell to a group. Aristotle used psychology to help people be able to understand how to speak to large groups so they can be ready for any upcoming speeches. Present is something that Aristotle wrote about peoples minds who are at ease. “It is clear also that people are calm when their state of mind is the opposite of being angry: for example, in play, in laughter, at a feast, in prosperity, in success, in fulfillment, generally in the absence of pain and in pleasure that does not come from insulting anybody and in reasonable expectation of the future. Supplementary, [they are calm if] their anger has cooled with time and is not in its first stage; for time makes anger cease” (Barley 45).

A lot of professors have committed their existence to exploring Aristotle’s writings, mainly his discourse on language. People say that it is to be believed one of the most talented works on persuasion, especially from the early times. If it wouldn’t have been for this discourse on language as a necessary need for political and social betterment, we may have not achieved its apex for thousands of years to come. “Clearly, Aristotle’s work on the art of persuasion was a powerful force of social, indeed, even individual improvement,” said Loel Robertson.

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