The Republic · ¶5279

Pleasure, not akin to virtue, 3. 402, 403; pleasure and love, ibid.; defined as knowledge or good, 6. 505 B, 509 B; the highest, 9. 583; caused by the cessation of pain, ib. D [cp. Phaedo 60 A; Phil. 51]; a motion of the soul, ib. E; —real pleasure unknown to the tyrant, ib. 587; —pleasure of learning, 6. 486 C (cp. 9. 581, 586, and Laws 2. 667); —sensual pleasure, 7. 519; 9. 586; a solvent of the soul, 4. 430 A [cp. Laws 1. 633 E]; not desired by the philosopher, 6. 485 E: —Pleasures, division of, into necessary and unnecessary, 8. 558, 559, 561 A; 9. 572, 581 E; honourable and dishonourable, 8. 561 C; three classes of, 9. 581; criterion of, ib. 582; classification of, ib. 583; —pleasures of smell, ib. 584 B; —pleasures of the many, 585; of the passionate, ib. 586; of the philosopher, ib. 586, 587.

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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