Plato and aristotole intro

• Intro quote

  "the need to understand the world and reality was bound with the need to understand the self and the good life"
• What did plato quote?


  "The task of understanding the things in the world runs parallel with the job of truly getting into what will make the soul flourish"

  and that

  "man must seek to understand himself"
• Plato divided science into two, enumerate.


  Practical science and Theoretical science
• what is under practical science


  Ethics

  Politics
• What is under theoretical science?


  Logic

  Biology

  Physics

  Metaphysics
• Pracitical science is more alligned/related to the word and focuses on? How about theoretical science


  practical science is focuses on the concept of "Good" whereas theoerticl science centralizes or seeks to aim for the '"Truth".
• Aristotle is the first philospher who?


  first philosopher who approached the problem or reality from a "scientific lens"
• According to aristotle, the end goal of life is?


  Happiness, stated at the book of nicomachean ethics.
• Diffentiate aristotle and plato when it comes to "ARISTOTLE AND HOW WE ALL ASPIRE FOR A GOOD LIFE"


  Aristotle claims that this world is there is to it and that this world is the only reality we can all access.

  whereas plato believes that things in this world are not real and are only copies of the real in the world of forms.
• When it comes to the concept of change, according to Plato, what are the two realities?


  the world of forms

  the world of matter
• Plato's world of forms argues that


  things are copies of the ideal and the models
• Plato's world of matter argues that?


  things are changing and impermanent
• In the context of CHANGE, However, according to Aristotle, argues that


  1. There is no reality over and above what the sense can perceive.
  2. Change is a process that is inherent in all things.
  3. Every human being moves according to some end.

  Action is a function of the purpose (telos).

  End = happiness or human fluorishing.