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

He was the great pupil of 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 by Aristotle not to exist separately.

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

Plato's view that the mind (or soul) and matter (or body) are two disparate things.

What is dualism?

300

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

What are universal and objective?

300

Plato believed that we knew and interacted with the Forms during this time period.

What is before our birth?

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

Plato's theory of knowledge.

What is rationalist?

500

Plato and Aristotle believed that what we can know consists of this. 

What is...what is real?

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

The greatest of Plato's Forms.

What is the Form of the Good?

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