Il piacere intellettuale in Platone: apprendimento o contemplazione?

Contrary to a widespread opinion, for Plato intellectual pleasures are preceded by some kind of lack and a state of being empty, although this lack is not perceived as painful. They are associated with the process of coming-to-know something rather than with the continued possession and exercise of philosophical knowledge. These processes are often also accompanied by pains and frustrations. Since the goal of the human life is to become as much like god as possible, the most divine life for the philosopher will be a life of neither pleasure nor pain, since the life of the god does not contain any pleasure or pain at all.