Can anyone describe how Socrates’, Plato’s, and Aristotle’s philosophies relate to each other?

Question

concerning the following topics:
o Logic and Argument in Philosophy
o Knowledge and Methods of Acquiring Knowledge
o Love
o Existence

Answer 1

Your question requires a very detailed answer. What you are asking would be a philosophical essay. I will try to give you a few ideas though this is not an area of expertise for me .....

Socrates is generally given credit for laying the groundwork for our western philosophy and way of thinking. Perhaps his most important contribution was the Socratic method - answering a question with a question - which of course, many people find infuriating. He used this method to examine many key moral concepts, including good and justice. He is regarded as the father of political philosophy and ethics. His way to use logic was to continually examine and discard hypotheses and constantly question his own beliefs and those of others.

Plato was a student of Socrates, and became well known as a writer of philosophical dialogues. Socrates is often a character in Plato's dialogues, and many philosophers question whether the ideas are actually those of Plato or Socrates. There is no doubt that Plato was strongly influenced by Socrates' teachings. Plato's dialogues are often written using the Socratic method, in the form of questions. Plato wrote down his philosophical views, while Socrates did not. He wrote about forms of government (aristocracy, monarchy, democracy), the conflict between nature and convention, and the controversy of nature vs nurture before such issues were commonly debated. He had influential opinions on the nature of knowledge and learning, and debated whether or not virtue could be taught.

Aristotle was a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote books on many subjects, including physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology, none of which survive in their entirety. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential of ancient Greek philosophers. Together they transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato and Aristotle founded two of the most important schools of Ancient philosophy. Aristotle set the stage for what would eventually develop into the modern empirical scientific method. He valued knowledge gained from the senses and is known as one of the few figures in history who studied almost every subject possible at the time.

My advice would be that to get started you need to do a grid, with four columns, so that your page would look something like this:

Socrates Plato Aristotle
(each name is a column heading - this may not look quite right in the answer but I think you'll know what I mean)

Logic

Argument in P

Knowledge

Methods

Love

Existence

and begin reading through the links I've included and making notations in your grid. Identify similarities and diffferences. Then from that grid, do an outline for your essay.

The Wikipedia links are actually pretty good. Best of luck with this project. It is an interesting one. I hope this is of some help.

Answer 2

First of all your question is rather simple

Each philosophy relates to the other on the simple fact each taught the other thought process'.

Now say we were to argue the Nicomachean Ethics versus.
The Lectures 12- 14 of Socrates then maybe you have a question. This is a clever attempt at looking smart.

remember, teaching will ALWAYS relate to one another in some form or fashion

Answer 3

I think Logic and Knowledge are cousins by marriage and Love was adopted. The others are from a family who moved to Greece and are not related at all. I heard Existence and Philosophy are engaged but it is just a rumour at this stage....

Answer 4

well one, aristotle was a student of socrates wasn't he? and two, if you read ther philosophies on life etc....they can all be "sort of similar." But Aristotle is my all time favorite!