Any lesson that may be learned from the historical basis of the plot (as in Homers epics, the Oresteia) is hindered by the poet’s use of catharsis. For Plato, catharsis was a tool that poets used to play on the emotions and sentiments of the audience, he says this limits the audience’s ability do read/understand this poetry critically, drawing lessons from its words to improve their lives...
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The reason Sophocles’ Apology did not appeal to the jury of his Athenian peers is because they were looking for him to conform to their standards of education, of thought. Socrates’ and by extension Plato’s method of teaching, inspiring individual thought and personal reflection, and ran contrary to the Athenian’s concept of a good citizen...
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Plato This is all the more noticeable because of our ignorance of Aristotle's complete system. The writings which have come down to us comprise only about a quarter of his works...	14 / 3678
Aristotle Plato relied on the ability to reason in his attempt to explain the world. He produced his ideal world based on reason since such a world lies beyond the realm of the five senses...	2 / 369
Plato And Aristotle Views On Forms Aristotle’s believed that each thing is maintained of a mixture of both matter and form. By forms he meant essential conception of a thing and its fundamental conception...	2 / 350
Aristotle vs Plato He explains that the people have knowledge of these “forms” because the soul is immortal and this received knowledge are actually faint and faded memories that this world shadows from the other world...	3 / 822