Beschreibung:
How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?
1. Introduction: the pleasures of reason; 2. Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing; 3. Aristotle on the pleasures of learning and knowing; 4. Epicurus and Plutarch on pleasure and human nature; 5. Measuring future pleasures in Plato's Protagoras and Philebus; 6. Anticipation, character, and piety in Plato's Philebus; 7. Aristotle on the pleasures and pains of memory; 8. Epicureans and Cyrenaics on anticipating and recollecting pleasures; 9. Epilogue.