Abstract
ars exploring the relationship between rhetoric and dialectic have com- pared and contrasted the Rhetoric and the Topics, I explore rhetoric's relationship with phantasia by reading the Rhetoric alongside De Anima. De Anima is Aristotle's seminal account of the senses and their relation- ship to psyche (often translated soul). It addresses topics intimately con- nected to rhetoric: perception, cognition, deliberation, visualization, imagination, and the image. Phantasia is integral to each of these psychic processes and to Aristotle's understanding of the function of appearance in human experience. Hence, it is a lens suitable for exploring the rela- tionship between Aristotle's conception of civic discourse and his notions of sight and appearances as they relate to perception, interpretation, delib- eration, and judgment. I find in Aristotle's phantasia a tie between his art of rhetoric and his psychology and phenomenology (anachronistic though these terms are). Aristotle's psychological works, as Richard McKeon points out, are foundational to Aristotle's philosophy, and thus to his Rhetoric.
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