Plato, Philebus, section 41e

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[41e]

Protarchus
How and in what way do you mean?

Socrates
I mean to ask whether the purpose of our judgement of these matters in such circumstances is to recognize in each instance which of these elements is greater or smaller or more intense, comparing pain with pleasure, pain with pain, and pleasure with pleasure.

Protarchus
Certainly there are such differences, and that is the purpose of our judgement.

Socrates
Well then, in the case of sight, seeing things from too near at hand or from too great a distance

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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