WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Moral virtue consists in cultivating habits which will spontaneously incline us to take the middle course of action. Plato lists four virtues: courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom. Aristotle endorses them, but goes on to add magnificence, liberality, friendship, and self –respect (Curzer 2012).

Detailed explanation-2: -For Socrates and Plato, wisdom is the basic virtue and with it, one can unify all virtues into a whole. Aristotle believed that wisdom was virtuous, but that achieving virtue was neither automatic nor did it grant any unification (acquiring) of other virtues.

Detailed explanation-3: -Socrates was the teacher of Plato, and Plato the teacher of Aristotle, Aristotle eventually was the mentor and tutor for the only general said to have never lost a battle. Alexander the Great of Macedonia. Socrates was a soldier before he became a philosopher.

Detailed explanation-4: -Plato’s Republic endeavors to create an “ideal state” typified by the ruling of the Philosopher-Kings while Aristotle’s Politics sticks to reality, a regime of identifying the partly suitable assertions of democrats, oligarchs, and aristocracy.