Single Idea 12962

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure]

Full Idea

Fundamentally, pleasure is a sense of perfection, and pain a sense of imperfection.

Gist of Idea

Pleasure is a sense of perfection

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 2.21)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.194


A Reaction

A bit odd, but I like the idea that there is an intellectual aspect to even the most visceral feelings.