plato vs aristotle
...ortance. Plato’s famous “allegory of the cave” in which he symbolizes the depth of sensory input, places man, bound by sense experience, perceiving only shadows cast from statues of men and animals from up above. To gain true knowledge man must escape the world of the senses and climb out of the cave past the imperfect statues of men and animal so he may find truth and true form.The statues of the animals represent Plato’s belief that the material world crafted by man is imperfect and only allows us the imperfect perception of its existence, the shadow. The only perfect existence lie in the thought of the statue symbolized by the men holding the statues above their head like a light bulb above a comic character head. This belief did not totally exile humans from access to the truth. A Platonist believes math to exist in the world of thought but still has the ability to predict and explain the material world as well. This gave rise to Plato’s belief that math is humans only true access to knowledge. He believed math governed the properties of the “Demiurge” which is the creator of the perfect form. The Demiuge is not a god like those of Mt. Olympus with emotions and physical form, swayed by the actions of man. The Demiurge is the creator of the perfect form or idea, the outside mind that gives rise to the perfect form that allows the creation of the imperfect statues of reality that cast but the shadows that we perceive.Aristotle, student of Plato, was born in 384 BC. Aristotelian philosophy is used widely in everyday thought in the form of induction as well as scientific experimenting due to its objectivity. This philosophy, unlike platonic, Is based on sensory experience. Aristotle believed the material world, sense it is the only thing we can study, is the true reality from which man can gain true knowledge. This belief may have stemmed from his interact and study of biology from which he derived order existed in. He saw that no outside force gave order to the natural world but was contained in. The idea for potential being suggested by Aristotle held this not...