Philebus

One of Plato's late dialogues, the Philebus asks whether the good life for a human being consists in pleasure or in knowledge. Philebus and his spokesman Protarchus champion pleasure, while Socrates argues for intelligence. Socrates holds that the best life mixes the two, governed by measure and proportion. Along the way he distinguishes true from false pleasures and divides reality into limit, the unlimited, their mixture and its cause.

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