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Colloquium 2: The Ontology of Pleasure in the Philebus and the Republic

Colloquium 2: The Ontology of Pleasure in the Philebus and the Republic COLLOQUIUM 2 THE ONTOLOGY OF PLEASURE IN THE PHILEBUS AND THE REPUBLIC ÁLVARO VALLEJO CAMPOS ABSTRACT The main thesis of this paper is that Plato adopts in the Republic and the Phile- bus a normative perspective in relation to pleasure. Normative signifies that he defines concepts such as temperance, love or pleasure in a sense which pre- scribes how things should be, in accordance with an objective standard, in con- trast to the actual order of things or to what people normally think that consti- tutes a particular instance of these concepts. This objective standard is what Plato calls the nature of pleasure. In the first part of the paper I propose as a hypothesis to consider this objective standard a Platonic form and, from this standpoint, I discuss the alleged unlimited and genetic character of pleasure, and its place in the rank of goods, offering an alternative reading of this pas- sage, which I consider does not reflect Plato’s ultimate opinion about pleasure, but the terms in which the question has been settled in the dialogue by the op- posed defenders of pleasure and knowledge. In the second part I offer an alter- native interpretation of Plato’s theory http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Online Brill

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COLLOQUIUM 2 THE ONTOLOGY OF PLEASURE IN THE PHILEBUS AND THE REPUBLIC ÁLVARO VALLEJO CAMPOS ABSTRACT The main thesis of this paper is that Plato adopts in the Republic and the Phile- bus a normative perspective in relation to pleasure. Normative signifies that he defines concepts such as temperance, love or pleasure in a sense which pre- scribes how things should be, in accordance with an objective standard, in con- trast to the actual order of things or to what people normally think that consti- tutes a particular instance of these concepts. This objective standard is what Plato calls the nature of pleasure. In the first part of the paper I propose as a hypothesis to consider this objective standard a Platonic form and, from this standpoint, I discuss the alleged unlimited and genetic character of pleasure, and its place in the rank of goods, offering an alternative reading of this pas- sage, which I consider does not reflect Plato’s ultimate opinion about pleasure, but the terms in which the question has been settled in the dialogue by the op- posed defenders of pleasure and knowledge. In the second part I offer an alter- native interpretation of Plato’s theory

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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

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