Single Idea 2156

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / d. Sources of pleasure]

Full Idea

Each of the three mental categories (reason, spirit, appetite) has its own particular pleasure, so that there are three kinds of pleasure.

Gist of Idea

There are three types of pleasure, for reason, for spirit and for appetite

Source

Plato (The Republic [c.371 BCE], 580d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.326


A Reaction

I'm not sure why the types of pleasure are distinguished by mental faculties, rather than by the variety of sources of the pleasure.