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He, perhaps, should have called the first kind "removing pain" (non dolere?) and kept the second kind exclusively to voluptas
R. Robinson, C. Bailey
The Greek atomists and Epicurus
(2013)
On various proofs of this telos both by Epicurus himself and of later Epicureans see E. SPINELLI, Sextus Empiricus et le telos épicurien: le plaisir est-il par nature digne d'être choisi?
Which in my view refer to "katastematic" and "kinetic" pleasures respectively
Here one may mention B. NIKOLSKY, Epicurus on Pleasure
One of Epicurus' famous tenets makes clear that every pleasure qua pleasure is good. Yet, as he says explicitly, we do not choose every pleasure. See Menoec. 129 (supra
Both places and the third cited above are treated as telos, with the word being used explicitly or paraphrased (e.g. τούτου γὰρ χάριν πάντα πράττομεν
AbstractIn this paper I shall offer new definitions for what seem to be the most dominant terms in Epicurus’ theory of pleasures - “kinetic” and “katastematic”. While most of the scholarly literature treats these terms as entirely concerned with states of motion and states of stability, I shall argue that the distinction concerns whether pain is or is not removed by this or that pleasure. As the removal of pain is a necessary condition for the Epicurean goal of ataraxia and aponia, “katastematic” pleasure, having to do with the removal of pain, is the necessary pleasure pertaining both to the process of removing pain and to its result, namely the absence of pain, while “kinetic” pleasure is an unnecessary pleasure having nothing to do with the removal of pain, e.g. it starts after pain has been removed. If my analysis and interpretation prove correct, the two conventional classifications - “kinetic-katastematic” and “necessary-unnecessary” - turn out to be referring to the same phenomenon and are aspects of one classification. Moreover, this new interpretation resolves some of the main problems arising from our testimonia concerning “kinetic” and “katastematic” pleasures.
Elenchos – de Gruyter
Published: Jun 1, 2015
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