There's a giant difference between ideas of the good between Plato and Aristole. Plato understood right action as a consequence of right knowledge, the ascensio

There's a giant difference between ideas of the good between Plato and Aristole. Plato understood right action as a consequence of right knowledge, the ascension from the cave into the heavens is this pursuit of right knowledge - and it got him sold into slavery by Dionysus I as a test. Aristotle is a radical empiricist next to Plato (he was a a zoologist after all): absolute Good is impossible because it isn't adaptable to the specific situation at hand, whatever that may be; but you can't be very adaptable if you practice excess or are intemparate, and these take training to manage - Nichomachean Ethics is a book on proper parenting. Thus I wager Plato saw himself as bringing right knowledge into the Sicilian courts, whereas Aristotle saw himself in a much more practical light in both Philip and Alexander's courts