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Again (iii.) , it does not follow, as some argue, that as the end is
better than the process towards it, so there must be something better than pleasure. For
pleasures are not really processes, nor are they all incidental to a process: they are
activities, and therefore an end; nor do they result from the process of acquiring our
faculties, but from their exercise; nor have they all of them some end other than
themselves: this is only true of the pleasures of progress towards the perfection of our
nature. Hence it is not correct to define pleasure as a ‘conscious
process’ ; the term should rather be ‘activity of our natural
state,’ and for ‘conscious’ we must substitute
‘unimpeded.’ Some thinkers hold that pleasure is a process on the
ground that it is good in the fullest sense, because in their view an activity is a
process; but really an activity is different from a process.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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