Full Idea
Intellectual pleasures are superior to sensuous ones.
Gist of Idea
Intellectual pleasures are superior to sensuous ones
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1176a02)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.324
A Reaction
This claim, for which he here offers no support, depends on the idea that pleasure can have a value, as well as an intensity. Mill agreed with him, but Bentham disagreed (Idea 5271)
Related Idea
Idea 5271 Prejudice apart, push-pin has equal value with music and poetry [Bentham]