Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Socrates , Plato and Aristotle Introduction

Three of the most revered philosophers in ancient philosophy are Socrates , Plato and Aristotle . Socrates was regarded as the father of philosophical inquiry known and popular for the Socratic method which has been the start of the formulation of scientific method . It was a method of looking for answers through continues questioning of what was the problem really is . Plato , on the other hand , is considered by most historians and philosophers alike to be the disciple of Socrates Aristotle had been the disciple of Plato , though

their ideas greatly varied , for Aristotle was the first political philosopher while Plato focus on perfect states

Logic and Argument in Philosophy

Socrates was believed to be the inventor of logic and reason , for it was him who had first devise a method of searching for the truth although he was also popularized and even executed for being a corruptor of the youth . Socrates believes that the same or those with family resemblances ' should have a common name or to be called in a more general world . Plato 's reasoning , takes resemblances as a copy or an imitation of a perfect concept . Plato believes that there exist two worlds , the world of ideas and the practical world . The world of ideas is perfect while the world of forms is imperfect and is only imitations of the world of ideas . Ideas came first before forms Aristotle on the other hand , believes that our world is the reality Logic , as was used by Aristotle is a device in which we came to know something . In Plato 's ideas , we came to know things through a recollection of the ideas that the soul have experience the world of ideas . Aristotle was known as the founder of categorical logic , in which he argues that things have common features go together , this as we can see is the same as the notion made by Socrates . Although Plato have made attempts to establish a system that could be of deductive logic or reasoning in his book the sophist , nevertheless he did not succeed

Knowledge and Methods of Acquiring Knowledge

As discuss above , the acquisition of knowledge made by Socrates was through a method now known to be the Socratic Method . In the view of knowledge , Socrates , mentions as can be read in the dialogues of Plato that the only thing he was certain is that he new nothing . This is the only knowledge that he posses . Plato believes that knowledge is the same as perception , however , Socrates do not take this same stand Socrates insist that there were knowledge that can be gain even without sense-perception , such as the knowledge of the virtues . As what was said above , knowledge for Plato is a result of the recollection Aristotle was known to distinguish knowledge as truth . Unlike Plato who believes that our world is only an imperfect manifestation or copy of the world of ideas , Aristotle believes that there is only one world where ideas are...