Comparison Of Political Philosophy Between Plato And Aristotles

Abstract:As the most valuable heritage from the ancient Greek philosophy, Platonism and Aristotlenism have nourished the progress of humor culture. In their huge but delicate thought systems, theories of politic are the essence part, being not only the directly and systematically report of the ancient Greek’s city-state regime, but also the important example to the political culture process of nowadays. The problems they proposed are still the focus we reflect on. The theory of Plato and Aristotles and the differences between them directly influence the formation, development and evolution of later world political philosophy. Even in today’s time crisis, we still to review the two philosophers’thought essence. This paper is divided into four parts.The first part elaborates respectively, Plato and Aristotles’s different political experience, which leads to two different political purport.The second part, mainly from the influence of Plato and Aristotles’s different political philosophy purport philosophical basis to discuss the two political philosophy based on the comparison, and then from the two political philosophy the philosophical foundation of the ontology, epistemology, theory of value to discuss.The third part, focuses on Plato and Aristotles political philosophy main content comparison, and then from the ideal city lifestyle, the polis justice understanding, to construct the polis justice realization and implementation methods to carry out in-depth discussion.The fourth part, mainly discusses Plato and Aristotles political philosophy’s influence on the later generations, respectively discusses the Hellenistic period, the Middle Ages into the modern era.