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Often appears with: the passions and the emotions · pleasure, pain, and the good life · good and evil · emotional repose · contrary pleasures
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1)
“Thus from custom some take pleasure in cannibalism or in the unnatural intercourse of man and beast.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · observation
He holds that one pleasure can be contrary to another, explaining contrariety through the soul’s repose-like emotional states with different termini, and clarifying how sadness relates to pleasure.
*On the contrary,* The Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 5, 6) that some things are pleasant "not from nature but from disease." *I answer that,* We speak of that as being natural, which is in accord with nature, as stated in *Phys.* ii, 1. Now, in man, nature can be taken in two ways. First, inasmuch as intellect and reason is the principal part of man's nature, since in respect thereof he has his own specific nature. …