Single Idea 328

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure]

Full Idea

Everything that takes place naturally is pleasant.

Clarification

'Nature' is the Greek word 'physis'

Gist of Idea

Everything that takes place naturally is pleasant

Source

Plato (Timaeus [c.362 BCE], 81e)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.111


A Reaction

Not many people would agree with this. I recently watched a sparrowhawk eat a pigeon in my garden. This is the source of the stoic formula of living according to nature.