Logic Down Deep in your Spirit, Soul, and Body

Logic Down Deep in your Spirit, Soul, and Body

Logos, ethos, and pathos can all be appropriate at different times. They correspond to the Spirit, soul, and body. Know when to use them. 

Aristotle comments on the three modes by stating:
"Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds…"

1. Spirit- Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal CHARACTER when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. ...

2. Body-Secondly, persuasion may come through the hearers, when the speech stirs their EMOTIONS. ...

3. Soul-Thirdly, persuasion is effected through the speech itself when we have proved a truth or an apparent truth by means of the persuasive ARGUMENTS suitable to the case in question. — Aristotle, Rhetoric, 350 BC

Observations:
1. Don't misunderstand reason and logic for emotionless debate.

2. Spending on the circumstances/individual one persuasive argument may be best over another.

3. An argument can include all 3 persuasions and can be ordered for maximum effect. Plan your logic according to whether you're reaching the spirit, soul, or body. Need to appeal to their moral/ethical make up (spirit), their mental/logical side (soul/mind/heart), and their feelings (body.)