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To: average joe who wrote (95923)	10/27/2012 8:11:59 AM
From: Robin Plunder	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 218828

It is fascinating that Plato was the teacher of Aristotle, and in fundamental ways these two were so brilliant and so completely opposite in their viewpoint that they have basically set the stage for many of the fundamental intellectual conflicts that have occurred down thru the ages, and still occur today. There is a famous painting somewhere in Rome I think, in which Plato and Aristotle are shown together, with Plato pointing towards the heavens and Aristotle with his hand stretched out towards the earth...indicating that Plato looked for intuition from a supernatural world as the source of knowledge, while Aristotle looked for knowledge based on evidence from our observable world. Here are some comments from Aristotle on Ethics....he was one of the first thinkers to attempt to provide a comprehensive view of ethics. He did not think that his comments on ethics were a 'certainty', but a first attempt to make a rough outline of the principles of ethics. “Our discussion will be adequate if it has as much clearness as the subject-matter admits of, for precision is not to be sought for alike in all discussions, any more than in all the products of the crafts. Now fine and just actions, which political science investigates, admit of much variety and fluctuation of opinion, so that they may be thought to exist only by convention, and not by nature. …We must be content, then, in speaking of such subjects and with such premises to indicate the truth roughly and in outline, and in speaking about things which are only for the most part true and with premisses of the same kind to reach conclusions that are no better…” • (Ethics, Aristotle, Bk I, Chapter III, 1094b 13-23.