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Pleasure, Perception, and Natural Harmony in Plato and Epicurus /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pleasure, Perception, and Natural Harmony in Plato and Epicurus // David D Ortiz.
Author:	Ortiz, David D.,
Description:	1 electronic resource (296 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-04A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30631219
ISBN:	9798380606592

Pleasure, Perception, and Natural Harmony in Plato and Epicurus /
Ortiz, David D.,

Pleasure, Perception, and Natural Harmony in Plato and Epicurus /David D Ortiz. - 1 electronic resource (296 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.

In the Philebus Plato presents and defends a view of pleasure that explains pleasure in terms of perceived restoration. A creature experiences pleasure when the creature perceives that its deficiencies are being restored. For example, a creature experiences pleasure when it quenches its thirst by drinking water. As a result of this view of the nature of pleasure, Plato identifies pleasure as a genesis. As such, pleasure is unable to satisfy the necessary and sufficient conditions for eudaimonia. By contrast, Epicurus identifies pleasure as the telos of life and maintains that pleasure is necessary and sufficient for eudaimonia. Prima facie Plato and Epicurus endorse mutually exclusive conceptions of the nature of pleasure. However, I suggest that Plato in the Philebus and Epicurus hold the same core view regarding pleasure.It is the aim of this dissertation to demonstrate that both Plato in the Philebus and Epicurus identify pleasure as a pathos. That is, they both conceive of pleasure as being essentially a mental state that is concerned with a creature's perception of its current psychosomatic state in relation to its naturally determined psychosomatic state. In more detail, Plato in the Philebus views pleasure as being essentially a mental state that accidentally involves felt sensations. Similarly, Epicurus identifies pleasure as being essentially a mental state that necessarily - though not essentially - involves felt sensations. I further demonstrate that the differing role that felt sensations play in the two accounts of pleasure does not constitute a substantial difference between the two accounts of pleasure. Rather, I maintain that the necessary role of sensations in Epicurus' account is a feature of his epistemology, and that Epicurus is committed to this conception of the role of sensations in the phenomenon. The benefit of my view is that it accentuates an underappreciated continuity in the conception of pleasure between Plato and Epicurus. Furthermore, my view brings Epicurus more in line with mainstream views regarding the nature of pleasure in antiquity.

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