1. The pleasures of reason
Remembering and anticipating
What the lion anticipates
2. Plato on the pleasures and pains of knowing
Pleasures and pains of learning in the Philebus
The pleasures and pains of the cave
Coming-to-know and continuing to know
Philebus 55a: pleasure, thought, and the divine life
3. Aristotle on the pleasures of learning and knowing
Pleasures of thought in the Nicomachean Ethics
Learning and pleasure in Rhetoric 1.11
Learning and pleasure in Poetics 4
4. Epicurus and Plutarch on pleasure and human nature
Epicureans on the pleasures of learning and knowing
Epicureans against Plato, Platonists against Epicurus
Plutarch's Platonist attack on Epicurean pleasures
Plutarch and the pleasures of reason
5. Measuring future pleasures in Plato's Protagoras and Philebus
Measurement, illusion, and prudentialism
6. Anticipation, character, and piety in Plato's Philebus
Anticipation and false pleasure
True and false pleasures and piety
Character and false pleasure
Protagorean hedonism and consistency
7. Aristotle on the pleasures and pains of memory
Memory, character, and pleasure in the Nicomachean Ethics
8. Epicureans and Cyrenaics on anticipating and recollecting pleasures
Epicurean prudential reasoning
The limits of prudential reasoning
Epicureans and their critics on memory, anticipation, and pleasure
The pleasures of confident expectation
