Full Idea
All moral virtue is concerned with bodily pleasure and pain.
Gist of Idea
All moral virtue is concerned with bodily pleasure and pain
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 247a08)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Physics', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1996], p.176
A Reaction
Not to be misunderstood. The 'intellectual virtues' are different, for one thing. And he is not implying hedonism, but that moral virtue concerns our judgements and habits in relation to pleasure and pain. What do we count as acceptable pleasures?