Comparing Aristotle's Ideas Of Right And Wrong

Around the year 470 BC, the ideas of right verses wrong have been a very influential factor in life and this started with Socrates who had the first initial thoughts of right and wrong, to Plato who then incorporated the mind and soul, and then to Aristotle who took science into account. Due to each one of these famous philosophers, we are somewhat able to understand why we have morals and ethics and what right from wrong truly is. Though, we will never know the full answer and truth, we can at least begin to understand right from wrong thanks to these philosophers and their many famous ideas. Socrates, who was one of the first philosophers starting his studies around the year 470 BC started to set a path for every philosopher to follow him …show more content…
Aristotle was a student of Plato whom gave him many ideas that Aristotle added onto as well as started to construct his own beliefs on right and wrong and the relevance of everything as a whole. Aristotle became the earliest scientist, he believed that each activity that has occurred or will occur has a final cause. Aristotle changed Plato’s idea that thoughts were greater than senses; Aristotle states that the senses were needed in order to properly determine reality. Each of the five senses have a part in the way we see reality, and since we all see reality slightly differently we must take them into consideration when deciding what our morals are. Therefore, the senses are the most important when deciding something is right from wrong. Just knowing right and wrong is not enough, a person must choose how to act properly to create any habit of having appropriate and good morals. This view changed drastically from Socrates, to Plato and then to Aristotle who started to put a scientific look into the philosophy of doing right versus wrong. The scientific reasoning behind Aristotle’s work helped him build this character of doing good based on the studies that he did and the concepts he