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Plato and Thucydides together had strikingly dissimilar views on their tactic on the good life. Many have demanded that Plato is making normative rights, whereas Thucydides has made empirical claims. Let's first take a look at Plato.

Personally speaking I believe that Socrates and Ajurna had many similarities with a few differences. The two philosophers were on the same path and had similar characteristics. They both were very intelligent men who looked at the world with more of an open minded view which brought trouble their way. It is safe to say that they both have made an impact in Philosophy and their ideas touched the mind of many

Both Plato and Aristotle have an extensive idea on who should rule a state, they both had an idea on how to improve existing societies during their lifetimes.

Looking at Plato, you must understand where and what the timeframe he lived in. He was born in Classical Greece in the year 427. He was educated, sophisticate, wise, intelligent, and also wealthy. These were traits that in this time period put you at the top of societal elites. Plato was a very gifted orator and speaker, giving him the ability to reason and discuss any topic really, with the ability to win arguments and persuade people. Due to his status in society, he was very idealistic and used this idealism to reason how a perfect society should be constructed and run.

It is necessary to look at several areas of each theory to seek the difference and similarities in each. Both philosophers had common points and some differences, starting with Plato, where in the beginning of his conversation with Thrasymachus (Plato, The Republic ,Page 19), the latter defines justice as “what is the interest of the stronger party”. Socrates goes on to refute this definition by saying that the stronger party can be at fault sometimes, and a ruler can make mistakes. One of the questions that Plato pursued in his work was the one proposed by Thrasymachus who suggests that the pursuit of self-interest or injustice pays better than that the pursuit of justice. Socrates states that the injustice would create disagreement and weakness instead of strength. He says that injustice causes problems and weakens the group “… whether it occurs in a state or family or army or in anything else: it renders it incapable of any common action because of factions and quarrels, and sets it at variance with itself and with its opponents and with whatever is just” (Plato, The Republic, page

Aristotle and Plato had a lot in common. They had similar views because Plato was actually Aristotle’s teacher. Aristotle was sent to Plato’s academy when he was seventeen, and he stayed for 20 years, studying and eventually teaching. Aristotle and Plato both had big influences on each other. Plato’s later writings, “...in which he softened some earlier positions, likely bear the mark of repeated discussions with his most gifted student [Aristotle]” (Aristotle). This means that Plato changed his stance on certain philosophical topics due to the time he spent with Aristotle. They both had a huge influence on each other throughout their lives. Also, both men created their own schools to teach and inspire young students later in their lives. According to World History Patterns of Interaction, Aristotle opened up his own school in Athens called the Lyceum that rivaled the Academy,

     Plato and Confucius differ on the questions of human nature and leadership in that they both take opposite ends of the argument as to what a leader can be, because of human nature. Confucius believed that if people could have a consistently good moral leader on whom to base their actions, then everyone could live in peace and harmony. He had great faith in the human nature and in people’s ability to act humanely to all others in order to create a harmonious universe. Plato, on the other hand, did not have this same faith that Confucius had in the nature of humans and believed that the inner evil in men would not allow for this harmony to truly take place.

Plato and Aristotle who are influential and great Greek philosophers. They both agreed that the life in the world has a meaning and it should not be just a coincidence or accidence. Also, they both asked the same question which is what does it take to be a good person? Another similarity was the good. Both philosophers argued the good as a happiness. Although Aristotle was Plato’s student, they also had different conceptions about moral principles or values dealing with the good and bad and how the good is achieved for the human being and in society. They also created their own ideas on things and different aspect regarding problems and their concerns. In comparison, one of the most obvious differences between Plato and Aristotle was that Plato was more concerned with virtue in action. However, Aristotle was more concerned with giving the exact definition of virtue. In general, Plato was concerned with the theory of building a perfect society while Aristotle was more concerned with deducing methods that could develop the individual already in existence.

Plato and Aristotle had a considerable amount of differences in ideology given that Aristotle was Plato’s student for roughly two decades. Plato, a student of Socrates, opposed the idea of average citizens to participate in politics because he believed that political practice was skill or “technē" that can only be achieved by a few people. He believed that “kings must be those among them who have proved best both in philosophy and where war is concerned.” (Republic, 491) and that these “philosopher kings” were the only people fit to rule a government, or the government would be doomed to fail. Aristotle is highly critical of Plato and his ideal constitution but he does find a similar form of ruling class to be ideal. He believes, in the

Plato and Aristotle made and still have make a huge impact upon mankind, which makes people question their original values.Although Aristotle and Plato had many distinctions both of them impact many different arguments referring to the important components of life.. The two philosophers were crucial to the development of rethoric and made a big impact on society.. Although most of the attitudes towards them where indisputable, many citizens did not agree with them changing people’s perceptions, fearing that they wouldn’t have the ignorance they did before and would strive more for their rights. Plato and Aristotles both talk about how Truth and truth differ and how they denote what is the real meaning of each one of the truth’s and how

Plato, the Greek philosopher was born in Greece. He was a member of an aristocrat family, which gave him further privileges. Since Plato’s family was very wealthy they could afford to give him a high level of education. Therefore, Plato studied under Socrates, and was often looked at as Socrates best student. Plato looked up to Socrates, studied his findings, and then continued to develop them with the knowledge he acquired from his teacher. Since Plato was a student of Socrates many of his ideas are based on those of Socrates.

Firstly, Plato based on his logical deduction when assessing the transformation between different regimes while Aristotle based on his own studies and analysis of different cities. The different evidences Plato and Aristotle employed throughout their reasoning in some ways show their different approaches through their demonstration. Plato mostly employed the examples in the daily life—the examples of the relationship between father and son, olds and youths, teachers and students, masters and slaves (Plato 563b); the precise calculation process (Plato 546c), the analogy— describe the oligarchy governor as drone, and similes and metaphors—describe the light as wisdom and goodness in the allegory of the cave (Plato 516a). These evidences contribute to make Plato’s statement prone to understand, but at the same

(Aristotle, 5) He also believes that real societies produce a different level of happiness for all different people. Aristotle and Plato were similar in some senses but, but Aristotle believed in a more real life with options unlike Plato who believes in one.

Based upon the reading of both Plato and Aristotle I couldn’t help noticing that they had the same idea towards what can make an effective society. Starting with elitism as a basis, they both defined it as the rule of the few who are excellent in ruling. Although both Aristotle and Plato both agree on the definition they had two different beliefs as to what elitism was according to their beliefs. Aristotle believed that those who hold the power in this elitist political system was through a system of hereditary. On the other hand Plato strongly believed the opposite to his teacher, he believed that the rulers had to go through an extensive and exhaustive training and a meticulous selection process to be considered for the role of the true and rightful leader. After seeing elitism we can go into the political philosophy of egalitarianism, which can be defined in very simple terms, People should be treated as equals, should treat one another as equals, should relate as equals, or enjoy an equality of social status of some sort.

critically studied matters of human life, political rule, human nature, and therefore wrote on the subjects. Plato 's ideals are theoretically based and although Aristotle was one of his students his thoughts and ideas are more practical and biologically orientated than Plato 's ideals. Although Plato and Aristotle have similar ideas on ideal human life and political regime there approach on both is distinct, since Aristotle focuses more on developmental and practical forms of life and Plato strives to proclaim the ideal forms although they may be unattainable.