Aristotle

Abstract

Plato's and Aristotle's philosophies mark distinct attitudes, the profound influence of which continues in the history of thought, to this day. And it will go on.
These are two spirits and two different attitudes to reality. They cannot be harmonized, because it is absurd mixing.
Plato's extraordinary effort is invalidated by the use of the wrong method and the acceptance of baseless premises. Aristotle adopts a different method, based on reality, which he understood as few people, and thus achieved valuable results. Aristotle in a way returns to the socratic method in its true upward sense, starting from the reality of the substantial individuals of the physical world. On them he builds science in the logical order until he reaches, by well-founded steps, the only transcendent reality that is God. It revalues the sensitive experience, combined with firm confidence in the universalizing power of reason, foundations of its vigorous realism.