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It is therefore clear that we must pronounce the admittedly disgraceful pleasures not to
be pleasures at all, except to the depraved.
But among the pleasures considered respectable, which class of pleasures or which
particular pleasure is to be deemed the distinctively human pleasure? Perhaps this will be
clear from a consideration of man's activities. For pleasures correspond to the activities
to which they belong; it is therefore that pleasure, or those pleasures, by which the
activity, or the activities, of the perfect and supremely happy man are perfected, that
must be pronounced human in the fullest sense. The other pleasures are so only in a
secondary or some lower degree, like the activities to which they belong.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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