Full Idea
Virtue is the general concord of reason and emotion, but there is one key element, which is the correct formation of our feelings of pleasure and pain, which makes us hate what we ought to hate, and love what we ought to love.
Gist of Idea
Virtue is a concord of reason and emotion, with pleasure and pain trained to correct ends
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.349 BCE], 653c)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.1344
A Reaction
An important truth, taken up by Aristotle. To see another person humiliated gives some people pleasure and other people pain.