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When Aristotle turned 17, he enrolled at Plato’s Academy. In 335, Aristotle founded his
own school, the Lyceum, in Athens, where he spent most of the rest of his life studying,
teaching and writing. Some of his most notable works include Nichomachean Ethics,
Politics, Metaphysics, Poetics and Prior Analytics. He had also been closely affiliated
and influenced by the Macedonian court because of his father, who was court physician
to King Amyntas II.
Aristotle’s work on philosophy influenced ideas from late antiquity all the way
through the Renaissance. One of the main focuses of Aristotle’s philosophy was his
systematic concept of logic. Aristotle’s objective was to come up with a universal process
of reasoning that would allow man to learn every conceivable thing about reality. The
initial process involved describing objects based on their characteristics, states of being
and actions.
Although Aristotle was not technically a scientist by today’s definitions, science
was among the subjects that he researched at length during his time at the Lyceum.
Aristotle believed that knowledge could be obtained through interacting with physical
objects. He concluded that objects were made up of a potential that circumstances then
manipulated to determine the object’s outcome. He also recognized that human
interpretation and personal associations played a role in our understanding of those
objects.
In 338 B.C., Aristotle went home to Macedonia to start tutoring King Phillip II’s son,
the then 13-year-old Alexander the Great. Phillip and Alexander both held Aristotle in high
esteem and ensured that the Macedonia court generously compensated him for his work.
In 322 B.C., just a year after he fled to Chalcis to escape prosecution under
charges of impiety, Aristotle contracted a disease of the digestive organs and died.
Discussion 2: About the elements
While exploring the human nature scientifically, Aristotle developed a linear model
of communication for oral communication known as Aristotle’s Model of Communication.
Aristotle found the importance of audience role in communication chain in his
communication model. This model is more focused on public speaking than interpersonal
communication. This is considered as the first model of communication.
Since in the prior discussion the functions, nature, and
process of communication were already explained, let us
recall if you could still identify the different elements present
in the communication process.
Below is a short passage. As you read it, identify the
elements in communication, such as sender, receiver,
message, feedback, noise, context, and channel.