Socrates, Plato & Aristotle

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were famous Greek philosophers who questioned the most basic and widely accepted ideas. Their philosophy was also based on virtue, or moral excellence. Socrates based philosophy on the idea that virtue is knowledge, Plato believed that virtue is a form of understanding and Aristotle believed that virtue is the basis of truths. Socrates believed that to do wrong is to damage one's soul, and that this is the worst thing one …showed first 75 words of 606 total…

…showed last 75 words of 606 total…whose propositions are scientific, and because he only regards general categorical propositions as scientific, his theory applies only to a small class of logically valid arguments. Aristotle proceeds by specifying certain parts of an argument, or moods, that axiomatically count as valid. Any argument that can be transformed into an axiomatically valid argument must also be valid. In conclusion Socrates, Plato and Aristotle believed in many of the same ideas but went about them differently.