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Next, since Good may be either an active working or a state,

those [κινήσεις or γενέσεις] which tend to place us in our

natural state are pleasant incidentally because of that tendency:

but the active working is really in the desires excited in the

remaining (sound) part of our state or nature: for there are

Pleasures which have no connection with pain or desire: the acts

of contemplative intellect, for instance, in which case there is

no deficiency in the nature or state of him who performs the

acts.