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

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

About this book

Human lives are full of pleasures and pains. And humans are creatures that are able to think: to learn, understand, remember and recall, plan and anticipate. Ancient philosophers were interested in both of these facts and, what is more, were interested in how these two facts are related to one another. There appear to be, after all, pleasures and pains associated with learning and inquiring, recollecting and anticipating. We enjoy finding something out. We are pained to discover that a belief we hold is false. We can think back and enjoy or be upset by recalling past events. And we can plan for and enjoy imagining pleasures yet to come. This book is about what Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans and the Cyrenaics had to say about these relationships between pleasure and reason.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781107025448
eBook ISBN
9781316190739
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Chapter 1 Introduction: the pleasures of reason
  10. Chapter 2 Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing
  11. Chapter 3 Aristotle on the pleasures of learning and knowing
  12. Chapter 4 Epicurus and Plutarch on pleasure and human nature
  13. Chapter 5 Measuring future pleasures in Plato’s Protagoras and Philebus
  14. Chapter 6 Anticipation, character, and piety in Plato’s Philebus
  15. Chapter 7 Aristotle on the pleasures and pains of memory
  16. Chapter 8 Epicureans and Cyrenaics on anticipating and recollecting pleasures
  17. Chapter 9 Epilogue
  18. References
  19. Index locorum
  20. Subject index

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