Single Idea 96

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

Full Idea

Nobody would choose to live his life with the mentality of a child, even if he continued to take the greatest pleasures in the things that children like.

Gist of Idea

Nobody would choose the mentality of a child, even if they had the greatest childish pleasures

Source

Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1174a02)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.317


A Reaction

This seems absolutely right, but I'm not sure why. Presumably we are strongly attached to our own nature, but what if we could start again with a different nature?