Plato & Aristotle
Plato
Aristotle
Plato vs Aristotle
Knowledge & Metaphysics
100

Both Plato and Aristotle have this theory in common

What is a theory of the forms?
100
He was the teacher of Plato.

Who is Socrates?

100

Before he conquered, he was the pupil to Aristotle.

Who is Alexander the Great?

100

Unlike his mentor, this philosopher greatly challenged the teachings and work of his predecessor.

Who is Aristotle?

100

This epistemic view says that knowledge can be acquired through sense experience.

What is empiricism?

200
For Aristotle and Plato alike, we can use the senses to come to know this place.

What is the (experiential) world?

200

This is the name of the Athenian school Plato founded.

What is the Academy?

200

These universal objects are said to not exist separately, says Aristotle.

What are the forms?

200

Unlike Aristotle, Plato distinguished between these two realities (worlds).

What are the World of Being and the World of Becoming?
200

This "Platonic Heaven" is where the Forms are said to exist.

What is the World of Being?

300
Aristotle and Plato would agree that the forms have these features.

What are universal and objective?

300

This term was used by Plato to describe the means through which we come to interact with the Forms.

What is the "mind's eye"?

300

This is the primary mode of being for an object, according to Aristotle.

What is substance (or essence)?

300

This describes the types of properties, for Aristotle, that can change without fundamentally altering the object itself.

What are accidental properties?

300

According to Plato, this epistemic theory is how we come to acquire knowledge.

What is rationalism?

400

Both Plato and Aristotle had great reverence for this man.

Who is Socrates?

400

According to Plato, this is the definition of knowledge.

What is a justified, true belief?

400

According to Aristotle, this is a property which can't change without changing the substance itself.

What is an essential property?

400

Aristotle and Plato disagreed with what counts as knowledge. Therefore, they disagreed with regard to these standards.

What are epistemic standards?

400

This is the epistemic standard for knowledge, according to Plato.

What is certainty?

500

According to their views, both of these philosophers believed that what we can know consist of what is real.

Who are Plato and Aristotle?

500

For Plato, to know something is simply to do this.

What is remembering?

500

This is the name of the school established by Aristotle.

What is the Lyceum?

500

Unlike Aristotle, Plato's theory was grounded on these two views.

What are rationalism and mysticism?

500
This notion is shared by Hindus and Plato alike.

What is Reincarnation?

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