plato

There are many ways in which the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle have reached that of that of Saint Thomas Aquinas, due to the fact that Aristotle thought the world that we live in today is the ultimate reality. While Plato thought the world that we see every day is real but is not the ultimate reality. Thus Aristotle’s views were closer to that of Aquinas’s and had the greater impact. Aristotle’s …showed first 75 words of 238 total…

…showed last 75 words of 238 total…two separate ones. They are the World of Becoming and the World of Being. To come to this point Plato combined many views from many of the other previous philosophers and came up with the idea of two different worlds. Thomas Aquinas used both of these philosophical views to create his own by saying that every thing comes from something previously until it comes from the very first thing, which Aristotle calls the prime mover.