Plato and Aristotle

Plato and Aristotle are tow of the world's most influential philosophers. Both had completely different views on the world. They were complete opposites or binary opposites and with both views comes certain consequences.

Plato believed in innate ideas, he believed our souls lived in a World of Ideas, before it lived in our bodies, that's why when we see a 'table,' we know it's a 'table' for soul already saw the idea 'table' in the World of Ideas. He used more deductive reasoning to come to conclusions. He believed our souls are immortal. Now, if we choose to believe what Plato believed there are certain consequences. From this idea of souls being immortal and the World of Ideas, the idea of reincarnation could have been a product. For our soul never dies, it just has a new 'life' or body after our current body dies, according to Plato. From Plato the idea “soul mate” is formed, our soul was connected to another's in the World of Ideas, they were separated to be later joined again in the world we live in, in marriage. The idea that we already knew everything, we just lose it and we have to relearn it can also come from Plato's main idea or concept.

Aristotle believed in innate reason, he believed that we are all born with reason but it is empty and as we experience the world our reason fills. He believed that everything in nature has a purpose. He believed women were less than or equal to dogs. He used inductive reasoning to come to conclusions. He also believed that everything in life has a category or a place it can be placed/put. He also used logic to discover the unknown and through expPlato and Aristotle are tow of the world's most influential philosophers. Both had completely different views on the world. They were complete opposites or binary opposites and with both views comes certain consequences.

Plato believed in innate ideas, he believed our souls lived in a World of Ideas, before it lived in our bodies, that's why when we see a 'table,' we know it's a 'table' for soul already saw the idea 'table' in the World of Ideas. He used more deductive reasoning to come to conclusions. He believed our souls are immortal. Now, if we choose to believe what Plato believed there are certain consequences. From this idea of souls being immortal and the World of Ideas, the idea of reincarnation could have been a product. For our soul never dies, it just has a new 'life' or body after our current body dies, according to Plato. From Plato the idea “soul mate” is formed, our soul was connected to another's in the World of Ideas, they were separated to be later joined again in the world we live in, in marriage. The idea that we already knew everything, we just lose it and we have to relearn it can also come from Plato's main idea or concept.

Aristotle believed in innate reason, he believed that we are all born with reason but it is empty and as we experience the world our reason fills. He believed that everything in nature has a purpose. He believed women were less than or equal to dogs. He used inductive reasoning to come to conclusions. He also believed that everything in life has a category or a place it can be placed/put. He also used logic to discover the unknown and through experience we gain knowledge. If we choose to believe in what Aristotle believed we have another list of consequences. From Aristotle we have categories for pretty much everything; socks go in a sock drawer, dresses are hung up in the closet, jeans go in the jean drawer. We also have categories for all living things: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, this categorization was created by Linnaeus, but was most likely inspired by Aristotle. We can get the idea of purpose from Aristotle, for example, why does it rain? To water plants to feed animals and humans is the answer Aristotle would have given. We can get the idea of sexism, masculinism, and feminism where men think they are better than women or women are better than men, from the idea of women being less than or equal to dogs. We get the saying or concept of “experience is the bets teacher.” We can also take scientists who use logic to discover the unknown like Aristotle, there are many people who use logic to discover the unknown.

As can be seen, Aristotle and Plato think differently, they are binary opposites. Out of each thought though comes a consequence, from either side, deeds were done based upon or influenced by these philosophic ideas. They are two of the world's most influential philosophers and hopefully now we can see why.erience we gain knowledge. If we choose to believe in what Aristotle believed we have another list of consequences. From Aristotle we have categories for pretty much everything; socks go in a sock drawer, dresses are hung up in the closet, jeans go in the jean drawer. We also have categories for all living things: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species, this categorization was created by Linnaeus, but was most likely inspired by Aristotle. We can get the idea of purpose from Aristotle, for example, why does it rain? To water plants to feed animals and humans is the answer Aristotle would have given. We can get the idea of sexism, masculinism, and feminism where men think they are better than women or women are better than men, from the idea of women being less than or equal to dogs. We get the saying or concept of “experience is the bets teacher.” We can also take scientists who use logic to discover the unknown like Aristotle, there are many people who use logic to discover the unknown.

As can be seen, Aristotle and Plato think differently, they are binary opposites. Out of each thought though comes a consequence, from either side, deeds were done based upon or influenced by these philosophic ideas. They are two of the world's most influential philosophers and hopefully now we can see why.