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Timaeus' Explanation of Sense-Perceptual Pleasure
Wolfsdorf, David
Wolfsdorf, David
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2014-12-09
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075426914000093
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Much has been written about Plato's accounts of pleasure in Republic 9 and Philebus, almost nothing about his account in Timaeus. But with respect to sense-perceptual pleasure specifically, the account in Timaeus is unique and extremely informative. This paper examines, in turn, the physiology and the psychology of sense-perceptual pleasure, focusing on the text at 64a2–65b3, but drawing on a wide range of passages from elsewhere in the dialogue. The paper concludes with a further suggestion: that Timaeus is implicitly committed to a distinction between two kinds of perceptual pleasure, sense-perceptual pleasure and ‘brute’ pleasure.
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Wolfsdorf, David. "'Timaeus' Explanation of Sense-Perceptual Pleasure." The Journal of Hellenic Studies 134 (2014): 120-35. doi: 10.1017/S0075426914000093
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Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 134
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