As a young man, Aristotle studied at Plato’s school and remained there until Plato’s death. Afterward, he served as a tutor to Alexander the Great, a fact about his past that hurt his standing with many people once Alexa… See more

Aristotle rejected the idea of Plato’s “Theory of the Forms,” which stated that the idealized essence of an object existed apart from that object. Plato thought that physical things were representations of idealized perfect for… See more

Aristotle’s ethics do not deviate greatly from Plato’s in that they are agent-centered ethics, in which the moral agent determines the right moral action. Aristotle thought that no rules or appeal to consequences could possibly giv… See more

Ian Klugeon April 28, 2020: There's a difference between what philosophers think and what they actually do. Philosophers - like all living things - act according to the Aristotelian rules of logic: the law of identity, the law of n… See more