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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: 'And do you not pursue after pleasure as a good, and avoid pain as an
evil?'
He assented.
'Then you think that pain is an evil and pleasure is a good: and even
pleasure you deem an evil, when it robs you of greater pleasures than it
gives, or causes pains greater than the pleasure. If, however, you call
pleasure an evil in relation to some other end or standard, you will be
able to show us that standard. But you have none to show.'
I do not think that they have, said Protagoras.
'And have you not a similar way of speaking about pain? You call pain a
good when it takes away greater pains than those which it has, or gives
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