įalse pleasure is not to be confused with vain pleasure. Similarly John Ruskin contrasted the adult's pursuit of the false pleasure of vanity with the way the child does not seek false pleasures its pleasures are true, simple, and instinctive". Vain pleasure Ī specific false pleasure often denounced in Western thought is the pleasure of vanity - Voltaire for example pillorying the character "corrupted by vanity.He breathed in nothing but false glory and false pleasures". Asceticism īuddhaghosa considered that "sense-pleasures are impermanent, deceptive, trivial.unstable, unreal, hollow, and uncertain" - a view echoed in most of what Max Weber termed "world-rejecting asceticism". In this use of the term falsity the thing we are talking about is in question of existence. When looking at falsity in this way we are explaining something as being "fake". The other way Plato uses falsity when looking at pleasure is in the alienans sense. In this way of looking at falsity of pleasure the truth value of the statement does not affect the fact that the statement is still a statement. The first way is sometimes called the propositional sense of falsity. When Plato describes false pleasure he defines it in two different ways. Īugustine saw false pleasure as focused on the body, as well as pervading the dramatic and rhetorical entertainments of his time. Plato devoted much attention to the belief that "no pleasure save that of the wise is quite true and pure - all others are shadows only" - both in The Republic and in his late dialogue Philebus.
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