Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Socrates , Plato and Aristotle

Introduction

They are the three greatest thinkers who ever walked on Earth . They each have distinguishing characteristics that actually sets them apart from each other . However , there are also philosophies or beliefs that are similar with the other due mainly to the influence of one on the other

This will help us understand the philosophies of Socrates , Plato and Aristotle in matters that concern logic , knowledge , love and existence

Socrates , Plato Aristotle

Socrates is considered the grandest and most discerning Athenian who ever lived . With

his absorption in philosophy , Socrates neglected his private soirees and later lived poorly

Socrates has been identified as a gadfly or a first-class pain . Benson (1992 ) explained that the reason behind this is that Socrates loved daring his students to think for themselves by using their minds to respond to questions . one of his outstanding qualities was that he did not disclose the answers nor the truth

His questions were always simple but what Socrates learned , and what he educated his students to find out , was that most people do not really have answers to these basic questions . Authors C . C . W . Taylor , R . M Hare , and Jonathan Barnes (1998 ) described Socrates as a wise man because of how he allows his students to use their minds

Meanwhile , Socrates relates the love with the proper actions of human beings . C . C . W . Taylor , et al (1998 ) illustrates that Socrates concludes that a holy action is not necessarily described by what the gods say it may be one that is uprightly right , and so , the gods love it . By love , Socrates pertains to the natural regard and enjoyment that the gods feel towards certain actions that are morally right

Socrates taught Plato numerous things which shows his master 's influence on his thinking . Plato is a believer that mankind is born with knowledge . He believed that it is not so much that we discover things every day but that we retain them . In his work entitled The Republic Robinson (1953 ) said is a collection of his dialogues with Socrates which states that education is improtant to bring about a society that is enjoyable and acceptable

The Republic talks about s such as justice , statesmanship , ethics and the nature of politics . Plato proposes that democracy was little more than a "charming form of government (Robinson 1953 . Plato 's Republic also manifests his expression on the theory of knowledge . He observes between the reality offered by our senses and the substance of such reality . For him , reality is constant and differs on the understanding of an individual

Plato identifies love as an archetype that the artist , as lover , often befits carried by this deity . Plato 's of love pertains to both the physical and spiritual realms or the body and the soul

On the other hand , Aristotle 's philosophy is quite hard to absorb . He taught astronomy , physics , logic , aesthetics , music , drama , tragedy poetry , zoology , ethics and politics . He was the famous...