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that the riddance of pain is pure pleasure or that of pleasure
pain.” “No, we must not.” “Yet,
surely,” said I, “the affections that find their way
through the body1 to the soul2 and are called
pleasures are, we may say, the most and the greatest of them, of this type,
in some sort releases from pain.3?” “Yes, they are.” “And is
not this also the character of the anticipatory pleasures and pains that
precede them and arise from the expectation of them?”
“It is.”
1 Cf. Phaedo 65 A, Phaedr. 258 E, Vol. I. p. 8, note a, on 328 D, and p. 8, note b.
2 Cf. Tim. 45 D (of sensations)μέχρι τῆς ψυχῆς, Laws 673 A, Rep. 462 Cπρὸς τὴν ψυχὴν τεταμένη. Cf. also Phileb. 33 D-E, 34, 43 B-C, and What Plato Said, p. 608.
3 Cf. Phileb. 44 B, 44 Cλυπῶν . . . ἀποφυγάς, Protag. 354 B.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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