Chapter 8 Summary
This chapter described Aristotle's self goodwill, Disinterest. Okay so let me explain how disinterest works. Disinterest is the appearance of having your audience interest and attention at heart. Now there are 3 tools to this method. First is the reluctant conclusion where you reach your conclusion only cause of its overwhelming rightness. Then you have the personal sacrifice. The personal sacrifice is when you tell your audience that the choice that you're about to make will benefit them way more than it'll benefit you while also making them think you will suffer from it. So a real world situation for this tool will be video games. So say you and your brother are playing Madden or something and you tell him that if you pick this play you'll have a bigger chance in winning. What you just did there was reveal a personal sacrifice. And finally we have dubitatio. Dubitatio is another word for dubious for better understanding. Dubitatio works by showing your audience that you have doubt in your rhetoric skills. you want it to seem like your lacking the right persuasion skills. At the end of the chapter it states that " The plainspoken, seemingly ingenuous speaker is the trickiest of them all, being most believable.". Also when using dubitatio in an one on one argument you want to start off soft spoken but when you get to making your point you stare directly into there eyes so the can see the truth and know that you mean and stand by every word you just said. So to wrap this up i say Aristotle's art of disinterest is just a mere way of manipulating people.
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