Problemas de 'topoi' en Aristóteles. Notas sobre una hipótesis diacrónica

Abstract

In the last fifty years a series of valuable contributions on Aristotle's Topics has helped to understand how a xóicoq functions in the dialectyeal argumentation. In contrast to this, Aristotle's TÓTCOI as set out in the Rhetoric does not seem to have received the same attention. Current opinión holds that the methodology in the Rhetoric involves two different kinds of TÓTCOI, the TÓTCOI KOIVOI and the iSia, considered by most scholars as 18101 TÓTCOI. The problem, here, is that this distinction of is TÓTCOI is not supported by any passage in the Rhetoric. Aristotle never speaks of. This work aims to show that the term 'í5ux is not intended to imply 18101 TÓTCOI. The only distinction that Aristotle introduces in the Rhetoric es that between and which also appears in the Tópica and which is the consequence of a fundamental coherence in the theory of argumentation presented by Aristotle in the two treatises. However, the results of such investigation has revealed that the concept of which Aristotle introduces in Rhetoric 1358 a 10 clashes with the list of TÓTCOI which appears in Rhetoric B23. In the addenda, this work addresses this issue and make a case for the possibility that Rhetoric B23 has been originally written independently from the previous sections of the Rhetoric.