Let's start with some similarities between the two that will lead us to understand why Aristotle deviated from Plato's beliefs on the arts. Both of these thinkers believed in the immutable rational idea or essence, which shapes everything we know. For them, nothing can be understood without understanding its idea or form. Aristotle however was more tolerant of art and sought to rationalize tragedies, for example, rather than rejecting them as Plato did. Although he did not explicitly say that he was countering Plato's theories on art, in his writings that is what he did. First, Aristotle disputed Plato's belief that a person is rational or emotional, divided between half animal and half divinity, and that one should only strive to be logical. Instead, Aristotle saw the flaw in this theory and believed that there were no two irreconcilable parts but that all faculties interacted together. Mainly everything we do uses the mind, and it is impossible to separate the rational part from the emotional part. And therefore it is not correct to say that art appeals exclusively to emotion but not to reason because the two things are connected. Our whole brain is completely