Thursday, January 15, 2015
My bad, yesterday i made a mistake, Plato taught Aristotle as well as he did Socrates......
Like his teacher Plato, Aristotle's philosophy aims at the
universal. Aristotle's ontology, however, finds the universal in particular things,
which he calls the essence of things, while in Plato's ontology, the
universal exists apart from particular things, and is related to them as
their prototype or exemplar. For Aristotle, therefore, epistemology is
based on the study of particular phenomena and rises to the knowledge
of essences, while for Plato epistemology begins with knowledge of
universal Forms (or
ideas) and descends to knowledge of particular imitations of these. For
Aristotle, "form" still refers to the unconditional basis of phenomena but is "instantiated" in a particular substance (seeUniversals and particulars, below). In a certain sense, Aristotle's method is both inductive and deductive, while Plato's is essentially deductive from a priori principles.[2
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