Question

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Plato was an idealist who focuses on ideal versions of things, and focuses on what can make the world slightly better. Plato believed that this world was a reflection of the real world of ideas (Richey, 2014). Plato created the form, which is the guide you would need that shows you how to do something well yourself. If we have an idea of what something should be like, like the ideal family or the ideal marriage and ideal education than we can focus on what’s wrong and work on making it better so the world can be better (Richey, 2014). The form is like a blueprint into making something the better version of itself. Aristotle was a realist who basically believed that what’s real is real and the only thing that is real is an idea and in order to understand truth you must understand ideas. Aristotle reduced metaphysics into two basic categories in which you can divide all of reality into. Substance and accident. Substance is what existed in itself and Accident inheres in the substrates. And there are two categories within Substance, primary and secondary substance. Primary is the actual article and the secondary is the general article (Sontag, & Roth, 2013). ‘Professor Mardon’ would be the primary substance and ‘Instructor’ would be the secondary substance. There are nine distinctions within an accident; quantity, quality, relation, where, when, position, possession, acting/passion. I find both metaphysical philosophies appealing but agree slightly more with Plato Forms. There are ideal forms that we must look up to and imagine ourselves in that idea, but I do not agree so much with Plato’s’ ideas on unity and property. Plato and Aristotle ideas are similar in a way of knowledge is real and can be attained, but how to achieve it and where it can be found is what makes these philosophers very different.

Answer 1

Plato was a great Greek Philosopher who put forwarded his famous Theory of Ideas or theory of Forms. Plato categorically denies the possibility of accessing the ideas through the senses. The senses can access only the external copies of Ideas and the originals exist in us. Plato argues that the sensations can only provoke Ideas and they cannot produce them. Moreover, the senses are fundamentally deceptive.Aristotl was also a great philosopher.aristitotle believed that what’s real is real and the only thing that is real is an idea and in order to understand truth you must understand ideas.