"What a strange thing that which men call pleasure to be, and how astonishing the relation is has with what is thought to be it's opposite, namely pain! A man cannot have both at the same time. Yet if he pursues and catches the one, he is almost always bound to catch the other also, like two creatures with one head." - page 97
This is interesting to think about. The way Socrates explains this comparison makes so much sense to me. Initially I thought, pleasure and pain do not go together?? Being in pain is not pleasurable??? But the example that Socrates gives with his legs clarifies his idea of pleasure and pain going hand in hand. Socrates has his legs removed from their binds and realizes the pleasure of having them released from the bindings. The pleasure from being released from the binds is related to the pain from before. This post is very shallow compared to many of the other ones this week, but I found pleasure/pain interesting.
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This quote is exactly the section of the text that caught my attention the most! It is such an odd concept to think that pain and pleasure could be so connected, but maybe he is actually making an accurate statement.
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