Full Idea
We must distinguish pleasures of the soul from pleasures of the body; examples of the former are love of civic distinction and love of learning.
Gist of Idea
There are pleasures of the soul (e.g. civic honour, and learning) and of the body
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1117b28)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.136
A Reaction
An example of where enthusiasm for analysis leads to oversimplification, and of how dualism about mind can colour the rest of one's views. There is a physical pleasure in learning something, and some physical pleasures are almost spiritual.