In it he described three methods for persuading an audience, called the three appeals. These methods are: ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is a Greek word originally meaning character or personality. It is the root word of ethics which is a person's code of behavior - how they determine ...
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Persuasion from ethos establishes the speaker’s or writer’s good character. As you saw in the opening of Plato’s Phaedrus, the Greeks established a sense of ethos by a family’s reputation in the community. Our current culture in many ways denies us the use of family ethos as sons and...