Single Idea 197

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure]

Full Idea

There are some pleasures which are not good, and some pains which are not evil.

Gist of Idea

Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil

Source

Plato (Protagoras [c.391 BCE], 351d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Protagoras and Meno', ed/tr. Guthrie,W K C [Penguin 1956], p.88


A Reaction

Sadism and child birth. Though Bentham (I think) says that there is nothing good about the pain, since the event would obviously be better without it.