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  • Essay / Plato and Aristotle Compare and Contrast Essay - 844

    Keleah JohnsonDr. GretoPY 317October 10, 2014Compare and ContrastMany philosophers are well known for their positions or beliefs. The best known philosophers are Plato and Aristotle. Plato, once a student of Socrates, found himself a teacher of Aristotle. This is why Plato and Aristotle discuss many of the same topics and present direct contrasts on the topics as well as similarities. Most comparisons between Plato and Aristotle can be found in their forms of "Problems of Universals" and Realism versus Idealism. Plato adopted many ideas from his mentor Socrates, but also collected some ideals from influential people of his time, such as Homer and Heraclitus. Like Socrates, Plato was concerned with questions of morality