most of us make lament, longing for the lost joys of youth and recalling to mind the pleasures of wine, women, and feasts, and other things thereto appertaining, and they repine in the belief that the greatest things have been taken from them and that then they lived well and now it is no life at all.
Connect Cephalus’s criticism of those who think of living well in terms of pleasure (329a-b (Greek)) with Aristotle’s first criticism of the view that living well/eudaimonia is pleasure (NE I.4 1095a18-26 (Greek), I.5 1095b14-22 (Greek)). (Christiana Olfert)
Connect Cephalus’s criticism of those who think of living well in terms of pleasure (329a-b (Greek)) with Epicurus’s argument that pleasure is “our first and kindred good” (Letter to Menoeceus, DL X.128-9 (Greek)). (Christiana Olfert)