In the canon
Philebus
- Form
- Form Philosophy
- Year
- Year 360 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 130
Socrates puts a question to the young man defending the claim that pleasure is the whole of the good: would you take a life of the greatest pleasures imaginable, if it arrived without mind or memory, so that you could neither know you were enjoying yourself nor remember it afterwards? That, Socrates says, is not a human life but the life of a shellfish.
for measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue all the world over
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