/lit/ - Literature

>>7760912
Aristotle's work isn't a treatise, and wasn't really a written work for an audience,

>that we arrive at universal knowledge by abstracting universals from our senses. Plato believes that the senses are largely a source of illusion, and that one must transcend the sensual world to see the intellectual world of which the sensual world is only a shadow
They mostly differ in the relation of the material to the intellectual world, but Aristotle's conception of forms isn't far off, especially when he talks about the soul and its ability to cognise.

>Plato has more in common with Eastern mysticism
Some common ground is reached, but come on my dude.

>Aristotle considers to have found proof that the soul is immortal
Whether he considers the soul to be immortal or not is up for debate

I also don't see how Aristotle is particularly closer to Christianity given only your examples. How can you rank those comparisons in any meaningful way?


Finally, of course Aristotle doesn't agree with everything Plato has said, but most of it comes from Plato in some way, whether by refutation or by building upon existing works (like in the ethics and politics)