Plato and Aristotle AO2

Question 1

(PLATO -) Barth

Answer 1

Human reason is corrupt and cannot be trusted

Question 2

(PLATO+) Bryan Magee

Answer 2

argues that the theory of forms encourages people to be enlightened rather than being caught up with the material world

Question 3

(PLATO-) Hume and Dawkins

Answer 3

Plato’s ideas about the world are counterintuitive

Question 4

(PLATO-) survival

Answer 4

senses clearly reliable as humanity has survived purely from the for thousands of years

Question 5

(BOTH-) Aj ayer

Answer 5

can’t be verified therefore meaningless

Question 6

(ARISTOTLE-) Descartes

Answer 6

senses are unreliable as they can deceive us- dreams

Question 7

(ARISTOTLE-) Schliermacher

Answer 7

argues prime mover is perfect, therefore his creation of world must be perfect, logical contradiction in a perfect world that can go wrong

Question 8

(PLATO+) Stephen evans

Answer 8

Plato offers a rational argument for the existence of another reality, gives hope for a perfect existence in the world of forms

Question 9

(ARISTOTLE -) Bertrand Russel

Answer 9

universe is just a brute fact end of no cause

Question 10

(PLATO+) Brian Davies

Answer 10

analogy of cave helps to illustrate Plato’s forms, powerful analogy through history to help demonstrate the relationship between us and the divine

Question 11

(PLATO-) Verhays

Answer 11

No absolute truth of the concepts of good, beauty etc,

‘reason is always culturally influenced’

Question 12

(ARISTOTLE-) science

Answer 12

big bang highlights that there was a definite starting point for the universe and it was not eternal

Question 13

(ARISTOTLE+) Aquinas

Answer 13

supported Aristotle’s a posteriori views, our best evidence of God, Paley

Question 14

(PLATO-) J.L Mackie

Answer 14

a priori weak approach as it is impossible to establish concrete reality on the basis of a mere definition or concept