The Constructive Argument Sample Clauses

The Constructive Argument. The constructive branch of Socrates’ analysis is more straightforward than its negative counterpart. Here, Socrates presents his positive view that weakness of will is, in fact, caused by a lack of knowledge about what is genuinely pleasurable and what is genuinely painful. He begins by reiterating his view that pleasures and pain are objectively quantifiable, and explains that they “are not different in any other way than by pleasure and pain, for there is no other way that they could differ” (356b). He then offers the analogy of weighing. Valuation in decision-making is like weighing pros and cons on a scale: “you put the pleasures together and the pains together, both the near and the remote, on the balance scale, and then say which of the two is more” (356b). Socrates then further specifies that human beings naturally choose what is more pleasant and less painful, and seek out what is pleasant and avoid what is painful (356b-c). We can identify these as two distinct principles representing the basic laws in of his theory of motivation. Socrates phrases them as follows:
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