If you want to get at the roots of contemporary advertising, you may need to go back about 2,000 years. It was Aristotle who first coined the three artistic proofs that are at heart of rhetoric and ...

Aristotle and later Cicero wrote about argument being composed of logos, ethos and pathos. Most people know the “logos” as logic and “pathos” as emotion (easy to remember because of words such as ...

Anyone who’s shed a tear (or a thousand) during Sarah McLachlan’s ASPCA commercial knows that as much as we might like to think of ourselves as purely logical beings, we’re often driven by our ...