Aristotles contributions to communication theory

Running Head : Aristotle 's contributions to communication theory

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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC , was the son of Nichomachus (the physician to the king of Macedonia . He was born in the city of Stagira in the northern Greece . He had initially been exposed to medical training after which in 367 BC enrolled to study philosophy with his teacher , Plato in Athens . He proved to be a very brilliant student but who constantly disagreed with almost everything his teachers taught . This was fundamentally because Plato

always understood the world abstractly but Aristotle was more for a changing world . Aristotle believed in empirical knowledge which involved cataloguing of observable phenomena in explaining everything in nature . Due to this belief and attitude , he wrote literally about all aspects of nature and human societies including : metaphysics , physics , embryology , ethics , poetry mathematics , meteorology , physiology , politics , dreams , anatomy rhetoric and many others (Randall , 1960 ,

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Aristotle is a great icon when it comes to the aspect of difficult and rational philosophical thinking and especially one that is of abstruse nature . Even among the very well educated and read persons , he remains a legend who wrote with the precision of a superhuman and his thinking was superb with clarity that is quite incredible . His works however are easily read and the western culture or global modern culture cannot be talked about without an association with this inspiring historical philosopher though he himself never came into terms with almost everybody leave alone Plato...