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Pleasure

    { 1 } - is incompatible with virtue -- so we should avoid pleasure.
    { 2 } - is the only thing that is good for its own sake.
    { 3 } - accompanies the good life, but isn't the goal of the good life.

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Pleasure

Pleasure can sometimes lead us away from virtue. But the two are hardly incompatible, since a good person will find virtue pleasurable.

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Pleasure

    { 1 } - is incompatible with virtue -- so we should avoid pleasure.
    { 2 } - is the only thing that is good for its own sake.
    { 3 } - accompanies the good life, but isn't the goal of the good life.

Aristotle explicitly rejects this. He thinks that this is the view of most people, even though it puts us on the level of beasts.

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Pleasure

    { 1 } - is incompatible with virtue -- so we should avoid pleasure.
    { 2 } - is the only thing that is good for its own sake.
    { 3 } - accompanies the good life, but isn't the goal of the good life.

The good person finds pleasure in doing good things -- but doesn't take pleasure to be the goal of life.

This relates to the "pleasure paradox" -- that people whose goal is simply their own pleasure tend to lead miserable lives, whereas people who have higher goals end up with a more satisfying existence.

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