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Explain Aristotle’s critique of Plato’s Idealism.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 20 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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Plato's idealism has two storeys. The first is a metaphysics in which true reality lies in eternal, separate Forms, of which sensible things are imperfect copies. The second is a politics in which those who know the Form of the Good must rule an ideal city. Aristotle, twenty years in the Academy, attacked both, insisting…

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  • The Metaphysical Critique
  • The Political Critique
  • Limits of the Critique
  • Indian Resonance
  • Conclusion
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