PLATO AND ARISTOTLESIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

Presented by : Nagla Drashti P.Class: M.ASemester: 1Paper No:3Paper Name: Literary Theory and CriticismBatch Year: 2016-2018Email id: nagladrashti38@gmail.comSubmitted to: Smt.S.B Gardi Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji

Bhavnagar University

Aristotle born in 384 BCE He was a Greek

Philosopher. He was a student of

Plato. His notable ideas are:

Aristotelian logic syllogism hexis Theory of the soul

Plato born in 428 BCE

He was also a Greek Philosopher.

He was a student of Socrates.

His notable works are:

Apology Symposium Republic

Aristotle Plato

AristotlePlato

Some Different points between Aristotle and PlatoPlato – “Intellectual concepts of perfect objects needed for a priory knowledge can not be gained from experience.”

Aristotle – “Intellectual concepts of perfect objects needed for a priory knowledge can not be gained from experience, by abstraction (on the soul).”

Plato – “A priory knowledge is equal to prenatal knowledge”

Aristotle – “A priory knowledge is not prenatal, but can be gained by induction based on abstraction”

Plato – “The object of our intellectual concepts (i.e. the things we directly conceive by means of our intellectual concepts ) are the perfect forms.”

Aristotle – “The object of our intellectual concepts are the nature’s (essences, quiddities ) of material things (on the soul); These objects can not be the perfect forms of Plato, for such perfect forms can not exist.”

Difference between Plato and Aristotle

Philosophy

Science Ethics

Political Theory

In Philosophy

•Plato believed that concepts had a universal form, an ideal form, which leads to his idealistic philosophy

•Aristotle believed that universal forms were not necessarily attached to each object or concept

IN ETHICSPlato believed that wisdom is the

basic virtue and with it, one can unify all virtues into a whole.

Aristotle believed that wisdom was virtuous, but that achieving virtue was neither automatic nor did it grant any unification of other virtues.

IN SCIENCE Plato did write about Mathematics,

Geometry, and Physics, but his work was more exploratory in concept than actually applicable.

Aristotle, among a few others is considered to be one of the first true scientists. He contributed new concepts in Math, Physics, and Geometry.

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