Plato, Philebus, section 37a

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[37a]

Protarchus
I should say we ought to consider that.

Socrates
Then let us analyze still more clearly what we were just now saying about pleasure and opinion. There is a faculty of having an opinion, is there not?

Protarchus
Yes.

Socrates
And of feeling pleasure?

Protarchus
Yes.

Socrates
And there is an object of opinion?

Protarchus
Of course.

Socrates
And something by which that which feels pleasure is pleased?

Protarchus
Certainly.

Socrates
And that which has opinion, whether right or wrong, never loses its function of really having opinion?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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