I fess I suspebsp;the soundness of this polibsp;in matters respeg men''s feelings and as theories are less ving than facts: whenever, therefore, they are found flig with actual experienbsp;they not only are despid but involve the truth in their fall:he, for instanbsp;who deprecates Pleasure, if onbsp;en to aim at it, gets the credit of backsliding to it as being universally subsp;as he said it was, the mass of men being incapable of nice distins.
Real ats, therefore, of subsp;matters em to be most expedient, not with a view to knowledge merely but to life and dubsp;for they are believed as being in harm with facts, and so they prevail with the wi to live in accordanbsp;with them.
But of subsp;siderations enough: let us now proceed to the current maxims respeg Pleasure.
II Now Eudoxus thought Pleasure to be the Chief Good bebsp;he saw all, rational and irrational alike, aiming at it: and he argued that, sinbsp;in all what was the objebsp;of choibsp;must be good and what most so the best, the fabsp;of all being drawn to the same thing proved this thing to be the best for all:"For each," he said, "finds what is good for itlf just as it does its proper nourishment, and so that whibsp;is good for all, and the objebsp;of the aim of all, is their Chief Good."
I fess I suspebsp;the soundness of this polibsp;in matters respeg men''s feelings and as theories are less ving than facts: whenever, therefore, they are found flig with actual experienbsp;they not only are despid but involve the truth in their fall:he, for instanbsp;who deprecates Pleasure, if onbsp;en to aim at it, gets the credit of backsliding to it as being universally subsp;as he said it was, the mass of men being incapable of nice distins.
Real ats, therefore, of subsp;matters em to be most expedient, not with a view to knowledge merely but to life and dubsp;for they are believed as being in harm with facts, and so they prevail with the wi to live in accordanbsp;with them.
But of subsp;siderations enough: let us now proceed to the current maxims respeg Pleasure.
II Now Eudoxus thought Pleasure to be the Chief Good bebsp;he saw all, rational and irrational alike, aiming at it: and he argued that, sinbsp;in all what was the objebsp;of choibsp;must be good and what most so the best, the fabsp;of all being drawn to the same thing proved this thing to be the best for all:"For each," he said, "finds what is good for itlf just as it does its proper nourishment, and so that whibsp;is good for all, and the objebsp;of the aim of all, is their Chief Good."