Aristotle Pleasure And Pain Essay

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Aristotle believes that virtue is strongly associated with pleasure and pain within actions and feelings (1104b 9), if an individual is able to reject something that is pleasurable and be okay with that decision then they are considered level-headed, however, if that person is bothered by avoiding the pleasurable thing, then they are uncontrolled. Aristotle states, “There are three conditions arising in the soul—feelings, capacities and states— virtue must be one of these.” (1105b 20). In other words, feelings that are derived from pleasure and pain, what the person is capable of doing with these feelings and states describes what our lives entail when our feelings are good or bad. However, Aristotle believes that “states” is what virtues

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