
HoP 134 - Balancing Acts - Arabic Ethical Literature
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Arasi's Analysis of Pleasure
Some see Arasi as a kind of sophisticated hedonist along the lines of Epicurus. He accepted Plato's analysis of pleasure as resulting from the restoration of the body to its natural state, out of a state of deficiency. Ultimately, we should look forward, not to any bodily pleasure, but to the freedom from body we will enjoy in the afterlife.
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