Who was the empirical one? Was it Aristotle or Plato?
Plato was ontological and Aristotle was empirical, correct?
Plato is defining how things are constructed and Aristotle is saying hey we have to practice.
…And then comes Socrates and he starts questioning everything and creates dialogue…
Plato points to the realm of Forms, εἶδος (eidos) or ἰδέα (idea): eternal structures, kinds, and patterns that shape how things are.
Aristotle looks at what you can observe, classify, and practice in the world, grounding knowledge in experience.
Socrates precedes both in method. He asks questions, he unsettles certainty, he insists on dialogue as the way to approach truth. His practice of questioning gave birth to Plato’s philosophy, and from Plato’s teaching, Aristotle’s empirical investigations followed.
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Isn’t it beautiful to go back to source, to go back to the classics and understand our way of thinking? We have lost that capacity because we are not questioning how things are made. We are not questioning how forms and structures are conformed. And we are not really using the power of observation and correlation to classify them because we are not using our own experience to know. And worst of all, we are not using questioning as a practice to learn more about how this ontology and this empiricism can create a space of curiosity and unfoldment that will lead to a proper dialogue where new things will emerge.
And this is where dialogue is born. Dialogue is interested in listening to many views, in understanding many perspectives. So then, the questioner, the one who questions, will have something new that is generated.
So yeah, what are you questioning these days? What is in your empirical mind?
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