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Again (ii.) , the good is either an activity or a
state. Now the pleasures that restore us to our natural state
are only accidentally pleasant; while the activity of desire is the activity
of that part of us which has remained in the natural state1: for that matter, there are some pleasures which do not
involve pain or desire at all (for instance, the pleasure of contemplation),
being experienced without any deficiency from the normal having occurred. That restorative
pleasures are only accidentally pleasant is indicated by the fact that we do not enjoy the
same things while the natural state is being replenished as we do after it has been
restored to the normal; in the normal state we enjoy things that are absolutely pleasant,
but during the process of replenishment we enjoy even their opposites; for instance, sour
and bitter things, none of which are naturally or absolutely pleasant, so that the
pleasures we get from them are not naturally or absolutely pleasant either, since there is
the same distinction between various pleasures as there is between the pleasant things
from which they arise.
1 Cf. 14.7.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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