Why is Platon and Aristoteles pointing in their respective directions

In the center of the fresco, at its architecture's central vanishing point, are the two undisputed main subjects: Plato on the left and Aristotle, his student, on the right. Both figures hold modern (of the time), bound copies of their books in their left hands, while gesturing with their right. Plato holds Timaeus, Aristotle his Nicomachean Ethics. Plato is depicted as old, grey, wise-looking, and bare-foot. By contrast Aristotle, slightly ahead of him, is in mature manhood, handsome, well-shod and dressed with gold, and the youth about them seem to look his way. In addition, these two central figures gesture along different dimensions: Plato vertically, upward along the picture-plane, into the beautiful vault above; Aristotle on the horizontal plane at right-angles to the picture-plane (hence in strong foreshortening), initiating a powerful flow of space toward viewers. It is popularly thought that their gestures indicate central aspects of their philosophies, for Plato, his Theory of Forms, and for Aristotle, his empiricist views, with an emphasis on concrete particulars. Many interpret the painting to show a divergence of the two philosophical schools. Plato argues a sense of timelessness whilst Aristotle looks into the physicality of life and the present realm. However,[original research?] Plato's Timaeus was, even in the Renaissance, a very influential treatise on the cosmos, whereas Aristotle insisted that the purpose of ethics is "practical" rather than "theoretical" or "speculative": not knowledge for its own sake, as he considered cosmology to be.

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>>2666286
Dude pointing horizontally believed in practical values derived empirically, dude pointing up believed in heavenly preordained values that have/do/will always exist.

>>2666344
So it was the original fedora shitposting thread

He isn't pointing up wards, he is giving someone the middle finger while the other one is telling the dude off portrait to "chill out"
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>>2666288
Underrated post.

>>2666288
kek

>>2666286

Plato is praising the ability of his Hokuto Shinken to finish an opponent with one finger, Aristotle is showing him how his Nanto Seiken would cut him in half before he can approach him.

>>2666286
>>>/his/

>>2666816
keked

>>2666286
its just body language. some people just cant stay fucking still when they talk so they move their arms and such

>>2669133
doubtful. back in those days every brushstroke had some symbolic meaning...

>>2669334
t. highschool art teacher

>>2666286
Plato's talking about his idea objective cupness of cups, and Aristotle is telling him to calm down the bullshit before Diogenes hears him and starts shaving chickens again.