Comments on: Satyr 3 http://pancime.com/?p=360 virtue, happiness, and erotica Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:41:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: pancime http://pancime.com/?p=360#comment-670 pancime Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:21:16 +0000 http://pancime.com/?p=360#comment-670 Hi MoR Thanks for your comment - for some reason my blog software can leave me unaware that a comment has arrived, so, apologies for the delay. 'Pleasure is fascinating but has its dangers and concentrating only on it outside feelings and sympathy can really lead to unhappiness' I totally agree with your interpretation and have nothing to add to it! Hi MoR

Thanks for your comment - for some reason my blog software can leave me unaware that a comment has arrived, so, apologies for the delay.

‘Pleasure is fascinating but has its dangers and concentrating only on it outside feelings and sympathy can really lead to unhappiness’

I totally agree with your interpretation and have nothing to add to it!

]]> By: Man of Roma http://pancime.com/?p=360#comment-538 Man of Roma Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:00:36 +0000 http://pancime.com/?p=360#comment-538 <i>The dedication to the dissolute life produces something far from the good life or the life well lived</i> Hard to say if this is the meaning the artist wanted to convey by that face, in contrast with the beautiful perfection of the body. The Greeks believed in these creatures as something between man and beast - thence the face - but I would say not in the sense of dissolution and unhappiness, and rather as the primitive force of sex-drive. But works of art are subject to any interpretation! Your sentence I agree with in another way. Pleasure is fascinating but has its dangers and concentrating only on it outside feelings and sympathy can really lead to unhappiness, I believe. Great debate among the Greeks themselves on this. Some of them well distinguished between pleasure (edoné) and happiness (eudaimonia). I have inserted you on my reader. The dedication to the dissolute life produces something far from the good life or the life well lived

Hard to say if this is the meaning the artist wanted to convey by that face, in contrast with the beautiful perfection of the body. The Greeks believed in these creatures as something between man and beast - thence the face - but I would say not in the sense of dissolution and unhappiness, and rather as the primitive force of sex-drive. But works of art are subject to any interpretation!

Your sentence I agree with in another way. Pleasure is fascinating but has its dangers and concentrating only on it outside feelings and sympathy can really lead to unhappiness, I believe. Great debate among the Greeks themselves on this. Some of them well distinguished between pleasure (edoné) and happiness (eudaimonia).

I have inserted you on my reader.

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