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This exactly represents Aristotle's relation to Pleasure he does

not, with Eudoxus and his followers, exalt it into the Summum

Bonum (as Paris would risk all for Helen), nor does he the the

Stoics call it wholly evil, as Hector might have said that the

woes Helen had caused had "banished all the beauty from her

cheek," but, with the aged counsellors, admits its charms, but

aware of their dangerousness resolves to deny himself, he "feels

her sweetness, yet defies her thrall."

[24] Αἴσθησις is here used as an analogous noun, to denote the

faculty which, in respect of moral matters, discharges the same

function that bodily sense does in respect of physical objects.

It is worth while to notice how in our colloquial language we

carry out the same analogy. We say of a transaction, that it

"looks ugly," "sounds oddly," is a "nasty job," "stinks in our

nostrils," is a "hard dealing."

BOOK III