Critically compare Plato’s reliance on reason with Aristotle’s empirical method [40 marks]

This essay argues that Aristotle’s empirical method is more plausible, over Plato’s reliance on reason. The essay looks at Plato’s allegory of the cave, and explains the failures within his argument, particularly the idea that the world of the forms is unrealistic, due to the interpretations with innatism.
Contrasting the essay looks at how Aristotle’s argument offers a useful way of thinking about the chain of causes and effects that lie behind the existence of something.
Drawing on examples from Dawkins and Russel to support this!

Achieving A-A*.