What are the points of Plato compared to reading Aristotle?
Plato gives you tools, and Aristotle can help you progress faster by identifying goals, but you still need to do the emotional work as defined by Plato. Also, I don't think Aristotle has all the goods defined or defined correctly. Plato's approach highlights the internal work and internal drives. These, I think, when understood can produce or will naturally produce good in the world. I think it is horse before the cart to look at Aristotle's virtues or at the very least, not as valuable for a practitioner. Aristotle can accelerate that process by helping identify when you're hitting some goods, but you still have to do the work. Aristotle talks about what good values might look like and identifies those, that's good, but Plato as well as some Stoic philosophy (Aurelius), gives you a sense of the tools that a person can use to achieve those goals. The Yogasutra (Yamas and Niyamas) talk about the higher and lower.
I'd be interested in reading more about Tao and Buddhism, especially, but I am thinking that it is similar.