Philebus

SOCRATES: Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure for all who are able to partake of them, and that to all such who are or ever will be they are the most advantageous of all things.

Preface
Selected Bibliography
Introductory Essay
The introductory challenge: pleasure vs. knowledge (11a-14b)	p. 1
The "dialectical" part of the discussion: the classification of pleasure and knowledge (14b-31b)	p. 5
The problem of the One and Many (14b-20a)	p. 5
The Dream of Socrates and the compromise solution (20b-23b)	p. 14
The fourfold division of all beings (23b-27c)	p. 18
The genera of pleasure and knowledge (27c-31b)	p. 25
The "critical" part of the discussion: critique of pleasure and knowledge (31b-59d)	p. 30
The critique of pleasure: the nature of pleasure and pain (31b-36c)	p. 30
The question of false pleasures (36c-50e)	p. 38
False pleasures: pleasures falsely depicted (36c-41b)	p. 38
False pleasures: inflated pleasures (41b-42c)	p. 46
False pleasures: confusion of pleasure with freedom from pain (42c-44e)	p. 48
False pleasures: pleasures mixed with pain (44e-50e)	p. 52
True pleasures (50e-55c)	p. 60
The critique of knowledge: pure and impure forms (55c-59d)	p. 66
The "synthetic" part of the discussion: mixing together the good life (59d-64b)	p. 72
The solution of the discussion: the final ranking of goods (64c-67b)	p. 79
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