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Full Idea
Each of the three mental categories (reason, spirit, appetite) has its own particular pleasure, so that there are three kinds of pleasure.
Gist of Idea
There are three types of pleasure, for reason, for spirit and for appetite
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 580d)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.326
A Reaction
I'm not sure why the types of pleasure are distinguished by mental faculties, rather than by the variety of sources of the pleasure.
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| 2156 | There are three types of pleasure, for reason, for spirit and for appetite [Plato] |
| 5256 | Some things are not naturally pleasant, but become so through disease or depravity [Aristotle] |
| 5258 | While replenishing we even enjoy unpleasant things, but only absolute pleasures when we are replenished [Aristotle] |
| 520 | The great pleasures come from the contemplation of noble works [Democritus (attr)] |
| 522 | Moderation brings more pleasures, and so increases pleasure [Democritus (attr)] |
| 6236 | People more obviously enjoy social pleasures than they do eating and drinking [Shaftesbury] |
| 3547 | Epicureans achieve pleasure through character development [Annas] |
| 4907 | The 'locus coeruleus' is one of several candidates for the brain's 'pleasure centre' [Carter,R] |