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Also （c） they say1 that pain is a deficiency of
the natural state and pleasure is its replenishment. But these are bodily experiences. Now
if pleasure is a replenishment of the natural state, the pleasure will be felt by the
thing in which the replenishment takes place. Therefore it is the body that feels
pleasure. But this does not seem to be the case. Therefore pleasure is not a process of
replenishment, though while replenishment takes place, a feeling of pleasure may accompany
it, just as a feeling of pain may accompany a surgical operation.2 The belief that pleasure is a replenishment seems to have arisen from the
pains and pleasures connected with food: here the pleasure does arise from a
replenishment, and is preceded by the pain of a want.
1 Plat. Phileb. 31e-32b, Plat. Phileb. 42c.
2 i.e., we do not say a cut is a pain, but it is accompanied by pain.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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