{"title":"The Zaytuna Curriculum Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003eZaytuna Curriculum Series\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection of published classical texts and foundational academic works. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is curated and translated by scholars associated with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"iNqyIf\"\u003eZaytuna College\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-art-of-persuasion-aristotles-rhetoric-for-everybody","title":"The Art of Persuasion: Aristotle's Rhetoric for Everybody","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The liberal arts of language—grammar, logic, and rhetoric—remain fundamental to a liberal education. 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He uses Aristotle’s Rhetoric to explain the nature and the parts of the art to the student and general reader who may not yet be ready to read Aristotle’s treatise itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter defining and explaining what the art is—and why, counterintuitively, rhetoric is a good thing—the book examines the five subarts of rhetoric: invention, organization, style, memory, and delivery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the work, Crider draws on ancient rhetorical masterpieces—especially Plato,s Apology and Thucydides’ Peloponnesian Wars—to illustrate the rhetorical principles explained, then asks the reader to apply those principles to Abraham Lincoln’s exemplary “Letter to Mrs. Bixby.” Crider concludes with a reflection on the central place of the art of rhetoric in the trivium, and in liberal education more broadly understood. 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