Plato Vs. Aristotle--Which Set Of Ideas Works For You?

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Plato and Aristotle

Plato and Aristotle were some of the philosophers in the ancient Greek who critically deliberated on issues of science, ethics, politics and more. Plato was an intellect of dialect and dialogue and therefore, he wrote several studies regarding politics and ethics. Aristotle is a philosopher who focused on science. He was born in Stagira Greek together with Plato CITATION Sto11 \p 21 \l 1033 (Stonehouse, Allison and Carr 21). However, he is referred to as “the father of western philosophy.” Aristotle contribution is more influential, particularly in logical reasoning and science. But both philosophers’ works are viewed to be less theoretically valuable in the recent days, they have a great historical value to western education.

Though Plato and Aristotle have different believes when it comes to mass, form and other related science CITATION Jad14 \p 24 \l 1033 (Patterson 24), both of them believed that knowledge must be of what is real, the knowledge should be what is able to fix and unchanged and the world experience through sensing is not the way to fixed things. However, I prefer the Aristotle beliefs and argument in regard to people and science in general. Aristotle pointed out that everybody has the ability to learn CITATION Bri12 \p 12 \l 1033 (Duignan 12). Aristotle also pointed out that form exists within space and time and therefore, he criticized Plato argument in regard to the existence of form. He argued that something which exists outside of time and space cannot have a connection with anything within time and space.

In conclusion, I believe everything exists for a purpose and everyone has the ability to learn something which Plato did not believe. As stated by Stonehouse, Allison, and Carr (15) Plato pointed out that is too elitist in his view and this required a devoted time to understand. It means that Plato focused on the weakness and see mass public ignorant. I prefer Aristotle because of the realistic way he looked at issues and argument when it comes to human understand and mass.

Works Cited

BIBLIOGRAPHY Duignan, Brian. "Plato and Aristotle: How Do They Differ?" https://www.britannica.com/story/plato-and-aristotle-how-do-they-differ (2012): 2-15.

Patterson, Jades. "Comparing the Similarities and Differences Between Plato and Aristotle." History of Aristotle and Plato (2014): 2-15.

Stonehouse, Paul, Pete Allison, and David Carr. "ARISTOTLE, PLATO, AND SOCRATES: ANCIENT GREEK PERSPECTIVES ON EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING*." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236896596_ARISTOTLE_PLATO_AND_SOCRATES_ANCIENT_GREEK_PERSPECTIVES_ON_EXPERIENTIAL_LEARNING (2011): 2-35.