Aristotle, S Views Of Plato And Plato's Theory Of Forms

To be able to understand the different views upon metaphysics from two of the most influential philosophers of all time. One must first have knowledge of what metaphysics is. According to The Importance of Philosophy metaphysics can be defined as” The branch of philosophy responsible for the study of existence... It encompasses everything that exists, as well as the nature of existence itself. It says whether the world is real, or merely an illusion. It is a fundamental view of the world around us”. Plato was mostly known for Theory of Forms and Aristotle was basically known for his thoughts in metaphysics. Plato and Aristotle both not only impacted social life in the past but the future, in fact some still use it in today’s teachings. Plato

The Theory of Forms states that there are two distinct levels of reality exist: the visible world that contains sights and sounds that we are aware of and the intelligible world of Forms that stands above the visible world and gives it being. For example, Plato explains that someone being able to identify a beautiful person or a beautiful object, would also only have a general conception of Beauty itself, and we are able to identify the beauty in a person or anything else only because we have this conception of beauty. In other terms, the beautiful things we can see are beautiful only because they are under in the general Form of Beauty. The Form of Beauty is if invisible, eternal, and unchanging. Compared to the things in the visible world that can grow old and lose their beauty. He proposed that what is truly real is not the objects we encounter but our sensory experience in the relatively of the form. Which can only be obtained logically. Plato’s theory of forms included allegory of the cave, divided line, platonic forms, and many more. Plato stated that only forms is something truly real something that cannot be described as an object; however, it can be described as an

Aristotle ideas of metaphysics began with his rejection of his teacher plato “ Theory of Forms”. Aristotle’s stated that forms are universal and are subject to change. He created main ideas that included categories of reason, syllogism, conceptualism, accidental vs. essential properties, and the four causes. According to Aristotle's, notion of Essential properties makes something what it is, and accidental properties are the differences of an item in itself. For example, there are many different types of Pencils, small, big, pink, black, white, yellow etc. but they are still considered pencils and this is what it makes it an accidental property. Aristotle believed that each thing is maintained of a mixture of both matter and form and the two were not of different realms. By forms he meant essential conception of a thing and its purpose. Aristotle saw only four ultimately basic questions that could be applied to anything, or as he called them, “the four causes”: the formal cause, or what the subject is; the material cause, or it is made of ; the efficient cause what made it ? or how it came to be i existence; and the final cause, or what purpose does it