(Originally written July 2, 2018 in Book 17)
This book hasn't been written in for nearly eleven years. But it seems a waste not to fill the pages. Thus, I'll continue with my Plato reading project that has dragged on for nearly two years now.
Plato's Philebus
trans. R. Hackforth
Cambridge at the University Press
1972
Introduction
Philebus is from the later career of Plato.
Philebus is not a real person; he is an embodiment of an irrational dogmatic hedonism.
The main concept of Philebus is that pleasure is an 'unlimited thing'.
Philebus
Philebus: pleasure is the good for all loving creatures; it is the right aim for all creatures and they ought to seek it.
"Hedonism and Socratism have this much in common, that they both find the human good within ourselves" (Plato, 12).
Socrates: thought, intelligence, memory and true reasoning are more valuable than pleasure.
No comments:
Post a Comment