The Importance of Expecting Pleasures

James Warren: Epicurus puts a lot of emphasis on the benefit of remembering and also expecting pleasures. If we're thinking about expecting pleasures, surely it could be a matter of regret to me to know or expect the absence of pleasures he argues. But if you imagine that thirty years from now I'll be having a pleasure as long as I don't die then wouldn't finding out that I'm not going to get that pleasure make my life worse? He would probably say that what he doesn't have is the sort of claim that Plato gets into some hot water within the Philebus by claiming that some of these kinds of pleasures of expectation should be thought of as false if they turn out not