2022-02-012022-02-012014-12-09Wolfsdorf, David. "'Timaeus' Explanation of Sense-Perceptual Pleasure." The Journal of Hellenic Studies 134 (2014): 120-35. doi: 10.1017/S00754269140000931471-6844http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/7301http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/7322Much 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.16 pagesengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-NDhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/TimaeusPlatoPleasurePhysiologyPsychologyText