Introduction
Aristotle is famously known as one of the greatest Greek philosopher and scientist who lived between 384 to 322 BC .His writing covered a lot of subjects including metaphysics, zoology, biology, ethics, logic physics and many more. After Plato’s death he was chosen to teach Alexander the great which gave him many opportunities .Plato was also a renowned philosopher and mathematician who lived between the years 428 to 347 BC. He started an academy in Athens where Aristotle was his student and was in the frontline in laying foundation for western philosophy and science. Though the two philosophers had work that comparable, Aristotle still remained a big critic of Plato. The objective of the paper is to analyze Aristotle’s view towards allegory cave and especially concerning human condition.
The two philosophers based their theories based on four beliefs of time which had been accepted .With this in mind it lead to skeptic views which both Plato and Aristotle agreed that knowledge is possible. The two had started their difference since they did not agree on some of the accepted beliefs of the time. In allegory of the cave Plato’s philosophy meant that the people who remained in the cave represented the ignorant and majority of the societies who were uneducated. Plato was a transcendentalist and believed if people want to understand the truth they must transcend beyond the world to a place where concepts exist. In this he meant the knowledge found beyond the senses is unchanging and this made a must to use ascetism in finding the truth. Plato did this in order to ignore any sensory distracting the body therefore decreasing the appetite of the body.
On the other hand Aristotle did not agree with Plato. Unlike Plato who used mathematics as the paradigm of knowledge Aristotle was for the idea of using knowledge paradigm through biology. His views were mostly encompassed and knowledge was not to be for the unchanging but it could also be changed by observing the world around. Aristotle became the forefather of the naturalist who are philosophy that is thought to study natural occurrences and nature in the world to be able to gain knowledge .He believed that the body could be used as a tool to aid learning therefore disagreeing that human condition which was thought to be a trap distracted the mind from the truth. His views concerning the human body would easily suggest that it had the capacity to accommodate everything humans were allowed to have knowledge of. This meant that ascetism was to be used in learning then humans did not have enough capacity to learn things. With Aristotle discovery of how the body developed in nature and the reasons behind how it acted meant that all he needed to learn was to use natural senses.
Conclusion
Both philosophers seem to be in a lot of disagreement with each having a different philosophical view these are transcendentalism and naturalism. Plato and Aristotle fail in trying to account for chances which are possibly happening and believe that in everything there is always an ultimate explanation concerning the truth. They are an opening for critism since both of the philosophers have some of the things unexplained in their theories. However through their philosophical views they have enabled other philosophers after them to discover new things using their original theories.
Work cited
Kolak Daniel, Thompson Garrett. The Longman Standard History of Philosophy . New Jersey: Pearson, 2005. 45-60, 64-78.
