WHAT IS REAL?

WHAT IS REAL?

1. Aristotle

   • The material comes before the form.
   • Wr discover ideas through the material.
   • We know the world through our senses.
   • Reason help us to identify the forms and categorize them.
   • Reality is what we perceive through our senses.
   • Realism
     • Universals properties have an existence indepent of the human mind

2. Plato

   • The material is a copy of the world of ideas.
   • The material is not real. The form or idea is real.
   • Our senses trick us.
   • Reason give us knowledge.
   • Reality is the world of ideas.
   • Idealism
     • Belief that most real entities are ideas and other immaterial entities.
   • World of forms
     • Belief the existence of a world with the perfect forms.
       • Cave Analogy

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