The difference between them, you ask?
The center of a Renaissance fresco says it all!
Look at Raphael's famous work, The School of Athens, toward whose studious center, just above a lounging, threadbare, cynical Diogenes, the perceptive viewer's attention is drawn.
There, amidst that gathering of inestimable genius, we find Plato--bearded in white, robed in red, pointing to the sky--and Aristotle--a younger, though no less confident man, gesturing toward the earth.
The former points to, well, the FORMS--the supra-natural, imperishable Ideas of which everything down here in the sensible realm is but a faint image.
The latter points to the ground, the world in which we live, in which the forms co-mingle with matter.
By this, we come to call Plato an EXTREME realist, and Aristotle, a MODERATE realist.
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