WHAT IS REAL?

WHAT IS REAL?

1. PLATO

   • forms or ideas
     • "this world is a world of appearances, and we make a big mistake if we confuse it with the real thing".
     • a world of imperfect objects of sense perception
   • idealism
     • the belief that the most real entities are ideas and other immaterial entities

2. ARISTOTLE

   • entelechy
     • the inner purpose or end in something that brings it to actuality
     • to describe this preocess a little more, we might say that matter yearns for form and, united with it, matter becomes formed, when its potential becomes actual, matter becomes real

3. differences

   • Aristotle rejects his teacher Plato's theory that forms exist in a separate otherworldly state. (RW p66)
   • unlike Plato,Aristotle was eager to use his senses as a legitimate route to knownledge

4. Alejandra Reynoso A01400291 Ana Elisa Rodríguez A01400369 CLASS TIME: 9:00