Single Idea 388

[catalogued under 23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 2. Hedonism]

Full Idea

A hedonist must say that someone who happens to be feeling pain rather than pleasure is, as long as the pain lasts, a bad man, even if he is the most virtuous man in the world.

Gist of Idea

Hedonists must say that someone in pain is bad, even if they are virtuous

Source

Plato (Philebus [c.354 BCE], 55b)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Philebus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1982], p.128