Plato Hedoism
Plato, a Greeek philospopher, believes that Hedonism is false and forms an argument against it through the voice of Socrates. Hedonism refers to the view that says pleasure is intrinsically good and that pain is intrinsically evil. Also, that the goal of life is to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. Hedonism states:
Pain = Evil
Pleasure = Good Plato explains how just as health and sickness cannot occur together, as they're opposites, evil and good cannot be present simultaneously. Someone cannot be strong and weak or slow and fast at the same time, instead they can be strong and weak or slow and fast in turns, performing different tasks one after the other. Evil and good can occur in turns as well. A person may do something evil such as kill another, then do something good like giving money to charity, but the good came after the evil and do not occur together. While evil and good cannot happen simultaneously; pleasure and pain can. A man who is thirsty is a man who is in pain, due to the thirst. While a man can also gain pleasure from drinking. A thirsty man who is drinking is feeling pain from the thirst, while also feeling pleasure from drinking. Therefore, pleasure and pain can occur together, unlike evil and good. As I play with my cat, I feel pleasure from the bond we share, while feeling pain as he scratches me deeply with his claws. As I had not seen my mother since I was a baby, when she had asked me if I would venture with her to America from Mexico, I felt ecstatic. I told her I would go with her. On the flight I felt great pleasure being with my mother while also experiencing great pain from having to leave my family in Mexico. Pleasure and pain was present simultaneously both at extreme levels. If pain and pleasure can be experienced at the same time then:
Sometimes pleasure = pain = good
Sometimes pain = pleasure = evil Hedonism states that pain and pleasure cannot occur together as pain is associated with evil and pleasure is
Pain = Evil
Pleasure = Good Plato explains how just as health and sickness cannot occur together, as they're opposites, evil and good cannot be present simultaneously. Someone cannot be strong and weak or slow and fast at the same time, instead they can be strong and weak or slow and fast in turns, performing different tasks one after the other. Evil and good can occur in turns as well. A person may do something evil such as kill another, then do something good like giving money to charity, but the good came after the evil and do not occur together. While evil and good cannot happen simultaneously; pleasure and pain can. A man who is thirsty is a man who is in pain, due to the thirst. While a man can also gain pleasure from drinking. A thirsty man who is drinking is feeling pain from the thirst, while also feeling pleasure from drinking. Therefore, pleasure and pain can occur together, unlike evil and good. As I play with my cat, I feel pleasure from the bond we share, while feeling pain as he scratches me deeply with his claws. As I had not seen my mother since I was a baby, when she had asked me if I would venture with her to America from Mexico, I felt ecstatic. I told her I would go with her. On the flight I felt great pleasure being with my mother while also experiencing great pain from having to leave my family in Mexico. Pleasure and pain was present simultaneously both at extreme levels. If pain and pleasure can be experienced at the same time then:
Sometimes pleasure = pain = good
Sometimes pain = pleasure = evil Hedonism states that pain and pleasure cannot occur together as pain is associated with evil and pleasure is