is what appears real and what is real. Plato believed that everything real takes on a form but doesn't embody that form. This is the position of Plato that there are two worlds, the being and the becoming. These two different approaches lead to the biggest idea that Plato and Aristotle differed on: their view on forms. Plato originated the Theory of Forms. Plato saw forms a descriptions. A form applies to more than a single thing, such as something as good. For Plato, two or more items (flagstones) can both be said to be round if they participate in the Form roundness. According to Plato, the Form roundness exists apart or separately from individual flagstones (and other round things). Round things depend upon the Form roundness for their existence. So Plato's answer to the basic metaphysical question - what is reality? - is that fundamentally it is the Forms of things that are real and not physical matter. Aristotle concerned himself with the relation of matter and form. Aristotle saw only four ultimately basic questions that could applied to anything, or as he called them, four causes: the formal cause, or what is the thing?; the material cause, or what is it made of?; the efficient cause, or what made it?; and the final cause, or what purpose does it serve? CONCLUSIONIn conclusion, these two great thinkers were quite different in many quite a number of manners. Plato believed in an inside/out view of metaphysics which shows two realms to our reality: the realm of changing, becoming things and a realm of fixed, and being forms, which are unchanging and that all things owe their reality. Aristotle saw in his outside/in view, that there was only one level to our reality and that in it; forms are found only within particular things, which have both form and matter.If there were not individual round things, there would be no such thing as the Form roundness. Forms do not exist separately or apart from particulars. Roundness, for examp...
