Plato's thoughts on reality were "heavily influenced by Heraclitus, Parmendes, and Socrates " (Silverman). Plato's metaphysical view, for example, has us divided into two worlds: the becoming and the reality. ... Plato illustrated his concept of reality with his divided line analogy. ... By contrast, Aristotle was a empiricist, meaning his ideas came from the senses and experience. ... Aristotle, who believed as a scientist that a focus on understanding the observable world was the priority, explained reality and entelechy by the four causes. ...

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Book III.1-13: city and citizen: definitions, good man vs. good citizen, classification of constitutions, conceptions of political justice Books III.14- IV: types of constitutions: kingship, aristocracy, democracy, oligarchy, constitutional government, tyranny; the best constitution (a) for most human beings, (b) relative to specified conditions ". . . we will perhaps grasp better what sort of political system is best. . ." ... At any rate, Aristotle had a very large empirical database for his theorizing about politics. 2. ... In Politics III.9 Aristotle argues against competing concep...

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Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). ... Finally this leads us to questions of the end of poetry itself, and its justification for existence, that is, why imitate at all and can we obtain knowledge and/or pleasure through it Both Plato and Aristotle, the foremost philosophers of their time, arrived at widely different answers to the questions above. This is because art was held to be an imitation of nature or reality, and Plato and Aristotl...

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., philosophers like Plato and Aristotle studied the art of rhetoric, and realized its true linguistic power. Yet instead of using this power for their own gain, Plato and Aristotle wrote about and discussed the virtuous use of rhetoric. ... Aristotle agrees with Plato's views as he restates "it is quite wrong to persuade men to evil," or even untruth (69). ... Even though some people used rhetoric for ill during Plato and Aristotle's time, these people were looked down upon unfavorably. ... Rhetoric has an extremely powerful potential in the field of persuasion that both ...

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In attempting to make sense of the earth's motion, particularly its position in the space (regardless the significance of the term at the time), people have spent uncalculated amount of efforts to make observations throughout the history. The major ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle, pop...

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This reasoning brings up a massive debate in the world of biology and psychology being the mind vs. brain. According to Christina Sarich, "The mind vs. brain debate has been going on since before Aristotle. He and Plato argued that the soul housed intelligence or wisdom and that it could not be placed within the physical body.... Searle he dives into the heated debate on the Brain vs. ... These three defining questions target the heart of the Brain vs. ...

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