In fact, Aristotle even states he builds from Plato insofar that he interprets Plato’s philosophy as really being about the material cause and formal cause. This is what propels our search for knowledge. It is not so much innate ideas that we have, per Plato, but instinctive appetites. However, Aristotle builds from Plato rather than reduces from Plato. However, Aristotle also argues “the human race lives also by art and reasoning.” Aristotle argues that sensation and experience as evidence for man’s natural desire for knowledge. According to Aristotle, “ll men by nature desire to know.” That is, all humans have an innate want for knowledge, truth, and wisdom – this is something that makes us human. Many people often misunderstand Aristotle’s basic argumentation, as well as his general epistemology.įirst, Aristotle is claimed to be an “empiricist,” that experience, senses, and sense-driven information is what constitutes knowledge (as opposed to strict rationalism). In the work, Aristotle lays out his famous “four causes.” Ultimately, Aristotle is interested in establishing a systematic doctrine of epistemology: what is knowledge and how do we know what we claim to know. Aristotle’s Metaphysics is one of the most important works of philosophy, and also one of the most controversial.
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