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public together. There is that by which a man learns that by which he has passions and the third which is sensual. 580 DE. This is a rough approximation to the division which was usual throughout the XIXth century and which is itself a rough approximation to the division into reason perception and immediate consciousness. The three goods to which Plato's division leads are wisdom honor gain. 583A. But he undertakes to prove that the only unmixed pleasure is that derived from wisdom. For violent pleasures are reliefs from pain not positive pleasures. Hunger is adaptation {foreign text] of the body ignorance and folly of the soul. Food and wisdom are the corresponding repletions. The soul having a purer being than the body as shown by its greater permanence (note that the Phaedo must have been already written) wisdom is better than food. 585 B. This argument is founded on the admission that food is a good. We note by [his?] way a statement that the best is the most intimate: [foreign text] 586 E. Reason alone finds the pleasure which it seeks.