The Views Of Reality Of Plato and Aristotle

The Views of Reality of Aristotle and Plato

Introduction

The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the views of reality of both Aristotle and Plato. Plato and Aristotle, two of some of the greatest philosophers of Ancient Greece, were connected in studies. Plato was taught by Socrates, then Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy. Plato was the first of the two to study, and Aristotle then studied there. And, upon learning this, one would assume that both philosophers shared the same beliefs and theories, but in fact, quite the opposite, although some theories of one gave ideas of theories to another. Plato was a great believer in God, and Aristotle lived to the rules of science, and thus this created the all famous Plato and Aristotle Dichotomy.

Plato

Plato's work is very famous, and his theories are sometimes used in novels, soap operas, and movies. Plato, the older of these two philosophers, was born in Athens, Greece, in 427 B.C.E,

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and died in 327 B.C.E. He was one of Socrates' students, and after Socrates' death, he traveled to Egypt and Italy to work with the students of Pythagoras. Soon after, he came up with his theory of Ideal Forms. This theory was basically that everything was a copy of a perfect model. Say, for example, there was a bowl on a table. Well the bowl would be an imperfect copy of the perfect original, which existed somewhere. And the table was an imperfect copy of the perfect original table. Plato also claimed that only people with intelligence, people whom he called "Guardians" could ever see the perfect model, or Ideal Form of each thing. His second theory was his "Theory of Two Worlds, the Worlds of Shadows and Ideas." This suggested that people only believed what they...