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Previous chapter Rhythm in Public Speech – Aristotle's Rhetoric In his Rhetoric, Aristotle addresses an important question that was left open in The Politics—that of language in public sphere—and this leads him to consider rhythm in speech and subsequently loosen a little more the Platonic definition of rhythm. In Book 3, after having dealt with proof, Aristotle focuses on the manner of expressing oneself, elocution, “for it is not sufficient to know what one ought - Sur le concept de rythme – Nouvel article