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Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Aristotle and Plato This paper will investigate into the works of Plato and Aristotle to further understand when we try to come to an inherent truth on the highest good that these two men speak of that we are left with a contradiction. In what starts out as the pursuit of the truth of what human beings seek to obtain as the highest good, is soon seen to be a cyclical paradox that unknowingly wages war in our minds on a day to day basis. However, perhaps in search of such a good we are left not to be stuck at a dead end but in truth to always be becoming as human beings a living contradiction. In both Plato and Aristotle, respectively, they arrive at an opposite end in their arguments for what is and how to reach this highest good that each of them speaks of. In doing so, they leave the reader to ponder on the readings that they have read already in earlier chapters of the texts. For Plato, *the Five Dialogues and for Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. However, it's no mistake that the books (chapters) in which these brilliant thinkers will inevitably reveal to us to showing a contradiction are the last of the books in the sections we spoke of in class. To only be stated as a banal platitude, it is the journey that makes us who we are and not the goal. While such an overused statement almost seems to have no meaning behind it without context, this time around the capacity of such a saying will bring to light an even greater maxim in the arguments for these two men. Before beginning the cliché journey that was spoken of, let us define contradiction so that as Aristotle would say "if like archers, we have a target it to aim at, we are
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