Plato and Aristotle

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Plato was a...
Rationalist- He gained his ideas by reason
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Plato believed that...
There exists a world of the forms which is more real that the material world. It is were the philisophers dwell.
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Plato believed that the material world was...
merely a shadow of reality, the material world is an illusion
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Plato was also a...
Dualist- body and soul are separate. Soul is immortal
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Plato believed that the form of the good...
illuminates all the other forms, is the source of all things, and the source of all knowledge.
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Aristotle was a...
Empiricist – knowledge is gained through senses
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Aristotle believed that the world of the forms...
does not exist. The material world = real. The material world is the real world, the source of all knowledge
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Aristotle also believed that the body and soul...
are one. Soul cannot live without the body
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Aristotle believed that matter...
and form belong to this world. God is form without matter, thought about thought, the Unmoved Mover.
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There exists a world of the forms which is more real that the material world. It is were the philisophers dwell.

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merely a shadow of reality, the material world is an illusion

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Dualist- body and soul are separate. Soul is immortal

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illuminates all the other forms, is the source of all things, and the source of all knowledge.

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