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Title: Aristotle and Plato
Contents
How Aristotle and Plato’s Views Differ on Form    3
The Difference between Accident and Essence    4
What It Means to Say That Aristotle Held a Teleological View of The World    4
Explanation Of Aristotle’s Four Causes    4
Work Cited    6
How Aristotle and Plato’s Views Differ on Form
Plato was Aristotle's teacher. His philosophy is anti-Platonic. The world's sources come in a variety of shapes and sizes. It takes the form of a tree here and a rock there. Matter-based objects have a variety of features. The tree has a specific shape and height, while the rock has a specific density. Plato explains matter's varied forms and how things exist in terms of their participation in abstract and ideal forms to varying degrees. Plato's metaphysics is centered on an abstract world of everlasting, constant, and perfect forms. Plato's forms are not physically present in the spatiotemporal world. Aristotle rejects the abstract form theory and considers everything to be a part of the actual spatiotemporal reality. It is tempting to dismiss Aristotle as a materialist, who believes that everything that exists is matter, atoms revolving in space. Although Aristotle does not believe in the existence of an abstract realm of everlasting and unchanging ideal beings, his analysis of the nature of things...