As I was reading through the catalog of what constitutes such things as happiness--or constitute such things--I was thinking about the way modern textbooks are set up with bulleted lists, headings, and subheadings to make the relation of one topic to another easy to understand. I was thinking that all those devises could be useful in the case of Aristotle's text.
But then again, as Kennedy writes in our companion text, _Rhetoric_ wasn't a cohesive whole. Even the chapter divisions were added many centuries later, and bullets would probably be getting carried away, both detracting from the text and imposing organization of something that doesn't have overall structure.
I recognized many of the concepts because they are present in some form in the textbooks I've taught from. They appear in modern texts in a somewhat modified form, though.
I wonder what it would look like to chart all the concepts out, mapping it in some program like OpenMind. I've used such charts when talking about artistic and inartistic proofs in the classroom. To do one for even Book I of _Rhetoric_ would turn into quite a project. But here I am back trying to organize. Apparently what I'm looking for is some way of visually structuring things so that connections can be more easily seen--so at a glance, we can see what is an alternative to what.
I can't help but wonder what it would have looked like if it had ever been revised to be a cohesive unit and not just lecture notes that also happened to be available in the school's library.