What is the world really like? Plato and Aristotle, the giants of western philosophy, attempted to answer this question with their own theories about ultimate reality. Plato was the first one of these ancient Athenians to come onto the scene. Plato's metaphysical theory goes as follows. He believed that at the core of every person is the Immortal Soul. This soul can be lead by one of three things: reason, spirit, or appetites. Among these …
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…of us recalling the forms, rather a individual substance. He is willing to look at the nature of each individual thing and define it in understandable terms, concrete terms, not just what it is trying too represent. He takes this concrete definition and gives it four causes, telling us how it exists. To me, he completely lays a blueprint for ultimate reality in a way that can be built upon to advance mankind through science.