ABSTRACT
Aristotle examines the subject of pleasure from multiple aspects—its qualities, its role, its targets. To the moral question of whether pleasure is good or not, a question to which previous philosophers held various opinions, the Stagirite takes a realistic, human, down-to-earth position. There are special pleasures that are felt more by specialists; for instance, a nice melody is more pleasurable for a musician. Probably it is time for a discussion about pleasure, since pleasure seems to be deeply ingrained in our human race; that is why people educate the young using as a rudder pleasure and unpleasure. “It is evident that people avoid unpleasure as something bad, while they prefer pleasure as something good—so these two are opposed to each other”. Pleasures and their opposites are feelings originating from things, people, and situations that one likes or dislikes, affecting one’s behaviour, so that in the former case he pursues them, and in the latter, he runs away.
