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Full Idea
Good is supreme, followed by beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pure pleasure, then mixed pleasure.
Gist of Idea
Good first, then beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pleasure
Source
report of Plato (Philebus [c.353 BCE], 67a) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Philebus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1982], p.149
A Reaction
He tells us that pure pleasures are simple pleasures. Epicurus presumably read this. No mention of truth, unless that is part of reason. Why does he value beauty so highly?