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Jiang defines the first simplified difference as rationalism versus empiricism: Plato seeks truth through pure thought, while Aristotle seeks it through observation and induction.
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Jiang defines the first simplified difference as rationalism versus empiricism: Plato seeks truth through pure thought, while Aristotle seeks it through observation and induction.
Jiang argues that the conflict between Plato and Aristotle informs the philosophical debate of Western civilization, visible in later rationalist and empiricist camps such as Descartes and Hume.
"I feel these oversimplifications provide clarity. Okay? All right? So the first oversimplification is Plato is what we call a rationalist. Aristotle is what..."
"Things will always change. Things will always move. There's no stopping movement. Okay? But for Plato, things are eternal. There's a grand design, and..."
"...the light, to fight for the truth, okay? Now, the general rationalism has a major impact on Jewish eschatology, okay? And Jewish eschatology, again,..."
"...science's central ideas seem to come from beyond the limits of rationalism. Rene Descartes dreams of an angel who explains the basic principles of..."
"...science's central ideas seem to come from beyond the limits of rationalism. People do not logically deduce these ideas. People do not logically deduce..."
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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