![]() ![]() The activity itself is described similarly in both dialogues: in the Protagoras as well as in the Phaedo the agent's goal in applying the hedonic calculus is to emerge with the largest pleasure or largest quantity of pleasure and the smallest pain/fear or smallest quantity of pain/fear (Prot. 351b-358d and Phaedo 68c-69c the activity of measuring pleasures and pains (and in the Phaedo also fears) is evaluated in its relation to the acquisition of aret~. 351B-358D AND PHAEDO 68c-69c In both Prot. Section 3 will then challenge the idea, vigorously defended by Gosling and Taylor in their important book The Greeks on Pleasure, l that the apparently conflicting views espoused in the Protagora~ and the Phaedo on pleasure and aret~ are in fact perfectly compatible. These objectives will be addressed, respectively, in sections 1 and ~. In the former passage he has Socrates argue that aret~ is achieved through proper use of the hedonic calculus in the latter, that use of the hedonic calculus fails to yield genuine aret& The main purposes of this paper are (a) to highlight the differences between the two treatments of the hedonic calculus and (b) to account for these differences. The Hedonic Protagoras Calculus in the and the Phaedo ROSLYN WEISS PLATOTWICEJUXTAPOSES THE PURSUITof aret~ and the calculation of pleasures and pains: at Prot. ![]() ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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