aRISTOTLE vS. pLATO get an A
Aristotle terms physics as the realm of the later, those entities that are eternally immutable. Unlike Plato, Aristotle feels there is more to the universe then the soul, the live wire of motion. He seeks to bridge the world of Being with the world of Becoming and attempts to explain the changes which occur in the sensible world. He makes reference to obtained (completed) objects such as wealth, transpiring from economics; and health, the goal of the medical art; in order to link the state of being to the state of becoming. We all want a good product in the end. The only way to get that good product is to work hard and thus as best possible in order to obtain the most wealth and the best of health; as is the same with ethics and being good in hopes of obtaining the best product, the true health and wealth of the divinely bestowed Eudaimonia.According to Aristotle, the goal of the ethical life is good. All human activity is directed toward this good, the highest of which is happiness, or Eudaimonia. There are two kinds of good, the intrinsic and the instrumental. Intrinsic goods are those of which are good in and of themselves. The only thing that is completely intrinsic is happiness.
The goal of life of course for both would be the virtue of man through complete righteous action and distance from evil temptation. In Classical Greek society the belief in a fearful God along with the intolerance of evil would ordain a society close to perfection. " (Timaeus, 30a)In the sense of this quote Plato believes that good must maintain its divine instilment in order to seize the intentions of an all-good creator. For to obtain a perfect and ethical society is far fetched in both the traditional Greek beliefs as well as in the views of Christians. Any individual with a virtuous soul is capable of realizing the good life. Plato wishes to censor poetry and the likes of the false-emotion inspiring arts because he feels they make man feeble in thought and susceptible to the deterrents of good; the goal that Plato strives to instill. As well, the efforts of Christianity do not seem to constitute a significant good in today's world. "A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life; his study will be vain and unprofitable because the end aimed at is not knowledge but action. "God made the soul in origin and excellence prior to and older than the body, to be the ruler and mistress. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. " (Book III 400e)In essence, Plato stresses that poets are manipulators of good and they can have an inverse affect on the youth in terms of how they reason. "if the beginning were destroyed, it could never be generated from anything nor anything else from it, since all things must be generated from a beginning. His views of how people choose to live and succumb to materialism and evil are the most down to earth in respects to other philosophers. Along the lines of the Now, society is polluted with liberal media that is ever so negative and immoral.
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