Paraphrasing: Assignment

1. Aristotle, on the other hand, believed that imitation involves human experience.With this, he saw a role for the arts. Aristotle believed that it is beneficial for artists to try to imitate aspects of nature, since by imitating something, you can learn something from it. However, even though the artist has the freedom to imitate aspects of nature, Aristotle stressed that unity of form must be evident. By "form" , Aristotle means something that makes a thing, a "thing", with all its appearances, functions, and capabilities. Aristotle's "form" differs from Plato's in that Plato's "Form" refers to the real things that we cannot see, and that the things we ordinarily perceive are just their shadows. Aristotle's "form" on the other hand, refers to the nature in which a thing behaves in the ways it do.

2. Another difference between Plato and Aristotle is the way they discuss imitation in relationship to beauty. Plato views beauty as an idea, something that is abstract and can't be seen and observed by our naked eye but instead it is revealed in the order of the natural world. That's why Plato put so much importance on mathematics as the way to understanding the natural world. On the other hand, Aristotle views beauty as something real. For Aristotle, beauty is a function of form, which refers to the nature in which a thing behaves in the ways it do, and that it is not abstract, as what Plato views, but instead it is grounded in the object. Aristotle believes that beauty is bounded to the object itself.