I personally find it odd that Aristotle's views differ so much from Plato's views when he was a student of Plato. Plato's theories of the personality of the human deal a lot with the soul and the soul's parts and how they function, whereas Aristotle's thoughts are more centered on different kinds of souls. ... It think that Plato has a very good theory here and backs it up well, but find it not as interesting or believable after hearing Aristotle's view on the same subject. ... I believe that because Aristotle has such a distinctive science background that all ...

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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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Plato is regarded by many experts as the first writer of political philosophy, and Aristotle is recognized as the first political scientist. ... Aristotle, unlike Plato, is not concerned with perfecting society. ... Plato would never allow the full public participation in government as Aristotle would like. ... Plato and Aristotle alike were two men who had ideas on ways to improve existing society. ... Both Aristotle and Plato have had a tremendous impact on political scientists of today. ...

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Aristotle believes that something is good when it ends in the means which was intended. Aristotle argued that the mind and the body were separate from each other. Plato distinguished the mental and the physical (the mind from the body). ... Plato splits up existence into two realms: the material area and the transcendent area of forms. Humans have access to the realm of forms through the mind, through reason, given Plato's theory of the subdivisions of the human soul. ...

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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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