Relation Of Pain And Enjoyment To Character Rough Draft
Alina Rossi-Conaway
Mr. Woodruff
Philosophy and Composition HH
December 7, 2012
Relation of Pain and Enjoyment to Character Rough Draft In the Callicles portion of Plato's Gorgias, something was agreed upon by Socrates and Callicles during an investigative conversation that is just not true. Around 499a, the two men agree in passing that he who feels enjoyment is good, and he who feels pain is bad. These assertions are explained by saying that good men feel enjoyment because good things are present within them, while bad men feel pain because of bad things present in them. This is simply not accurate. Enjoyment and pain are things that are felt as a result of outside events; they themselves provide no insight into a person's character. …show more content…
This is true for every person. Enjoyment and pain are experiences caused by positive and negative events that take place in a person's life and, as everyone experiences both, they have nothing to do with what kind of a person one is. Enjoyment provides no evidence of good things within a person, just as pain provides no evidence of bad things within a person. Enjoyment is the sense of satisfaction one experiences when something goes their way or they achieve something that they have been aspiring to. Pain is the grief one experiences as a result of suffering a loss or disappointment. Achievement, as well as loss, are things that every person goes through regardless of their character …show more content…
As a result, the degrees of enjoyment felt vary for different people. For selfless people, making a sacrifice in their lives brings about immediate pain but leaves them with lasting enjoyment through helping out those that they love. For selfish people it is quite the opposite. Their personal gain brings about enjoyment despite it being at the expense of others. One must look at whether this is shallow or deep enjoyment. By this I mean that the greedy people feel enjoyment, but since they hurt others along the way it would not be considered real enjoyment to good people. In addition, the enjoyment of the bad will be short-lived as it is purely materialistic and they pushed people away in order to attain
Mr. Woodruff
Philosophy and Composition HH
December 7, 2012
Relation of Pain and Enjoyment to Character Rough Draft In the Callicles portion of Plato's Gorgias, something was agreed upon by Socrates and Callicles during an investigative conversation that is just not true. Around 499a, the two men agree in passing that he who feels enjoyment is good, and he who feels pain is bad. These assertions are explained by saying that good men feel enjoyment because good things are present within them, while bad men feel pain because of bad things present in them. This is simply not accurate. Enjoyment and pain are things that are felt as a result of outside events; they themselves provide no insight into a person's character. …show more content…
This is true for every person. Enjoyment and pain are experiences caused by positive and negative events that take place in a person's life and, as everyone experiences both, they have nothing to do with what kind of a person one is. Enjoyment provides no evidence of good things within a person, just as pain provides no evidence of bad things within a person. Enjoyment is the sense of satisfaction one experiences when something goes their way or they achieve something that they have been aspiring to. Pain is the grief one experiences as a result of suffering a loss or disappointment. Achievement, as well as loss, are things that every person goes through regardless of their character …show more content…
As a result, the degrees of enjoyment felt vary for different people. For selfless people, making a sacrifice in their lives brings about immediate pain but leaves them with lasting enjoyment through helping out those that they love. For selfish people it is quite the opposite. Their personal gain brings about enjoyment despite it being at the expense of others. One must look at whether this is shallow or deep enjoyment. By this I mean that the greedy people feel enjoyment, but since they hurt others along the way it would not be considered real enjoyment to good people. In addition, the enjoyment of the bad will be short-lived as it is purely materialistic and they pushed people away in order to attain