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The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists

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The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists

Pleasure and logismos Knowing and learning Planning ahead Remembering and anticipating Reason and emotion What the lion anticipates Damascius and the donkey Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing Pleasures and pains of learning in the Philebus The pleasures and pains of the cave Coming-to-know and continuing to know Resolving the difficulty A proposal Philebus 55a: pleasure, thought, and the divine life Aristotle on the pleasures of learning and knowing A natural desire to know Pleasures of thought in the Nicomachean Ethics Learning and pleasure in Rhetoric 1.11 Learning and pleasure in Poetics 4 Conclusions Epicurus and Plutarch on pleasure and human nature Epicureans on the pleasures of learning and knowing Plutarch’s Platonist attack on Epicurean pleasures Plutarch and the pleasures of reason Conclusions Measuring future pleasures in Plato ’s Protagoras and Philebus Weighing and measuring Measurement, illusion, and prudentialism The salvation of life Conclusions Anticipation, character, and piety in Plato’s Philebus Anticipation and false pleasure True and false pleasures and piety The unity of a life Character and false pleasure Protagorean hedonism and consistency Conclusions Aristotle on the pleasures and pains of memory Memory, character, and pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics Memory and phantasia The memories of Eumaeus Epicureans and Cyrenaics on anticipating and recollecting pleasures Epicurean prudential reasoning The limits of prudential reasoning Epicureans and their critics on memory, anticipation, and pleasure Cyrenaic recommendations The pleasures of confident expectation Conclusions Epilogue

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