Comparing Plato And Aristotle's View Of Metaphysics

Metaphysics is the study of what is actually real about the makeup of the physical existence of the world. When researching this topic it showed that their were two philosophers, Plato and Aristotle who were passionate about this topic, but had two separate views. Plato thought that metaphysics was about the different Forms and the unchanging ideas that rest beneath the changing physical world, coming to the conclusion of dualism. Contrasty, Aristotle thought that metaphysics was about the physical substance of matter, form, and the universal imbedded in the item, which brought him to the conclusion of monism and the four causes. When thinking critically and analyzing each of the philosophers we must consider both a strength and a weakness

Such that, dualism is the material body and the immaterial soul, and that the soul is trapped in the body waiting to get out. A strength that Plato has in his view of metaphysics is that he considers the relationship between the physical (material) things and the Forms (immaterial). In this strength he shows that there is “the Good”, which is the highest level of perfection and everything is aiming to be at that level. The weakness that Plato has is that he considers everything physical and material to not be as real because the essence of something is greater, that the physical are imperfect copies of the true Forms. Physical things participate in Forms, but that they are separate from each other. Plato says, that we have forgotten these forms, and that our soul eventually remembers them, but our body is holding our soul back. All of these things are innate, but the problem with it being innate is that even though it might be universal to everyone, that their are biases, and that innatism might not even exist at all. Second let us consider Aristotle, Aristotle says that there is one world, that is universal and to find it you have to use the four causes, he cause this monism. As a result, to find the four causes you