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m-hodges 3 days ago

This is an amazing little subthread here because in Book 2 of Plato's Republic Socrates lays out three classes of "good" in response to Glaucon. He categorizes physical training as the type "good only for their consequences" which he argues is not the highest form of good. Now, if one does genuinely enjoy the activity, he would elevate it to the highest form, which is "good both for their own sake and for their consequences".