It was realdonldtrump not God Emperor <| sep |> What are you planning to get out of reading Aristotle ' s rhetoric ? Aristotle was a great taxonomist of ideas and this holds true for his treatment of rhetoric . His approach makes it very easy to think of rhetoric in terms of basic skill or application , however , some would disagree that rhetoric is so simple . Take , for example , the artistic vs . in artistic proofs are they really separable into one category or another , or are they always concomitant with one another as Killingsworth suggests in his treatment of the appeals sorry , missing the exact citation , but search Killingsworth ' s book on rhetorical appeals and you ' ll find it ? So , my suggestion is to look at how Aristotle can be read a providing a program or code for rhetoric in one reading and how he might be read as providing a more complex algorithm or calculus on the other .