Intelligent Design

Aristotle accepts pluralism over Plato 's unity in a myriad of ways The following will address Aristotle 's Metaphysics and the issues of plurality , reality , and the hierarchy that he presents in understanding these concepts . In the definition of pluralism there must not exist one dominating group . Thus , Aristotle challenges the idea of unity , or one by believing in objective reality . Aristotle , in the viewpoint of being a pluralist does not place emphasis on the existence of subjective ideas , .numbers and spatial magnitudes cannot exist apart from things .he who first

supposed that the Forms exist and that the Forms are numbers and that the objects of mathematics exist naturally separated the two ' [Ibid , Book XIII , 1085b 35 1086a 12 - 14 ,

. 909] . With this statement , Aristotle 's philosophy aligns him with naturalist philosophers and not congruently with Plato 's unity

Aristotle was partial to pluralism . He did place his faith in the idea that humans `aped ' reality and copy what they are witness but , and thus making reality an introverted , unattainable subject . A person 's personal truth , through the philosophy of pluralism and Aristotle , has a background involving historical context and empirical evidence wherein truth can be extrapolated . Aristotle believed that pluralism dealt more with a person 's culture than with a vast array of immitigable scenarios . For Aristotle , pluralism , and not unity allowed for change in the universe , and in this avenue of discourse Aristotle presented the concept of both motion and rest existing in the world in simultaneous reality , .it is not the case that all things are at rest or in motion sometimes and nothing for ever for there is something which always moves the things that are in motion , and the first mover is itself unmoved [Ibid , 29-32 ,

. 751] " Therefore , life , reality , self exist on a plane where the possibility of truth is represented in many as opposed to Plato 's unity or One

For Aristotle the concepts of unity as opposed to pluralism were too abstract in their denotation of the world , and of truth . Aristotle criticized this about Plato .he [Plato] agreed with the Pythagoreans in saying that the One is substance and not a predicate of something else and in saying that the Numbers are the causes of the reality of other things he agreed with them but positing a dyad and constructing the infinite out of great and small , instead of treating the infinite as one , is peculiar to him and so is his view that the Numbers exist apart from sensible things , while they say that the things themselves are Numbers , and do not place the objects of mathematics between Forms and sensible things [Ibid , 24-29 br

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Aristotle was opposed to the idea of unity 's view of truth , beauty and the ideal one . In disagreement with Plato , Aristotle gave utterance that the concept of unity was disembodied from reality , and therefore the concepts that were enforced in the philosophy had no applicable bearing

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