Frede, Dorothea, "Rumplestilskin’s Pleasures: True and False Pleasures in Plato's Philebus," Phronesis 30, no. 2 (1985), 151-80.

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Everyone who is moderately familiar with Plato’s dialogues will have the impression that pleasure according to Plato is a mixed blessing; often enough he refuses to regard it as a good – let alone the good – for mankind. It is easy to see the reason for this critical attitude: Pleasure (often paired with desire . . .) is what lures the soul away from the straight and narrow path of virtue and entwines it with all sorts of conflicts and confusions. Pleasure is therefore often treated by Plato as a necessary evil; necessary because of our vegetative and material needs, an evil because it opens the soul to all sorts of dangerous and uncontrollable desires.

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