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Plato, Aristotle, Plato’s hierarchy of the forms - Coggle Diagram
Plato
Senses experience cannot provide the certainty needed to guarantee that what we claim to know is true
The information we get by relaying on senses expreiences is constantly changing therefore unreliable
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Supreme form- form of the good is the form of all other forms because everything has goodness in it, all good flows down from the form of the good.
For Plato we are born with a dim recolection of the forms as we know beauty without being taught what beauty is this is the souls recollection of truth (forms) using reason.
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Potential evaluation for rationalism includes it is universal and everyone can have the same knowledge and understanding. It is eternal it will exist throughout time
Aristotle
Aristotle’s prime mover
The prime mover is the final cause because the prime mover has no materail formal or efficient causes as it is pure actuality that wont cees to exist
The prime mover does not move or have any desire or knowledge to move or change, it simply attracts things towards it by sheer will like a cat towards a bowl of milk. everything in the universe is attracted to the prime mover.
The prime movers qualities include being transcendent and seprate from the universe it is also necessary does not fail to exist, perfect and never fails to exist
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Aristole examined the world around him using his senses, using a posteriori argument to disagree with Plato’s teachings. Everything we need is in this world for aristole
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Potential evaluation for empiricism includes it takes into account how the world really works (facts and evidence). Widely used in science as a method of proving
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