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The specific quality of pleasure on the contrary is perfect at any
moment. It is clear therefore that pleasure is not the same as motion, and that it is a
whole and something perfect.
This may also be inferred from the fact that a movement necessarily occupies a space of
time, whereas a feeling of pleasure does not, for every moment of pleasurable
consciousness is a perfect whole.
These considerations also show that it is a mistake to speak of pleasure as the result of
a motion or of a process of generation. For we cannot so describe everything, but only
such things as are divided into parts and are not wholes. Thus an act of sight, a
geometrical point, an arithmetical unit are not the result of a process of generation
(nor is any of them a motion or process1). Pleasure therefore also is
not the result of a motion or process; for pleasure is a whole.
1 This parenthesis is perhaps an interpolation.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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