Comparing Plato and Aristotle

What are 4 similarities between Plato’s form of the good and Aristotle’s Prime Mover?

• Both Non physical

• Both influential in the Christian idea of God

• Both don’t have a personal relationship with the world

• Both perfect

What are 3 differences between Plato’s form of the good and Aristotle’s Prime Mover?

• Everything is attracted to the prime mover - form of the good is in everything

• Prime mover is pure but form of the good is a concept

• Form of the good is pure goodness and has no mind but prime mover thinks on itself

What are Aristotle’s theories based on?

Empiricism

What is intuition?

Unthought knowledge

What is Rationalism?

Knowledge through reason and logic

What is empiricism?

Knowledge through experience and senses

Who was a dualist?

Plato

What was Plato’s dualist belief?

The physical world is not real and the world of the forms is perfect

Who was a Monist?

Aristotle

What was Aristotle’s Monist belief?

One physical world and we need to study and learn more about this world

What is the difference between Aristotle’s beliefs being based on just empiricism?

He makes the leap to the prime mover which has some similarities with Plato’s form of the good