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Comparison of Aristotle's and Plato's Metaphysic

"What is reality?" Many early philosophers had different answers to this question. Some believed in one world and others believed in multiple worlds. This is a major difference in the metaphysics of Aristotle and Plato, two well known philosophers. Plato's Theory of Forms is known as dualistic idealism because he believed reality was made of two worlds, the physical world and the intelligible world (world of Forms). Plato illustrated his idea of dualism in The Divided Line. The Divided Line showed the division between the intelligible world and the physical world and shows the divisions within those two worlds. Aristotle, who was a student of Plato, rejected dualism for naturalism. He believed in one, single world which centered on primary and secondary substances. The two of them had very different views, beliefs, and answers to the question of metaphysics, but still shared few common elements.

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