https://sites.temple.edu/dwolf/files/2020/06/Plato-on-Pain.pdf
In various passages of his corpus Plato’s dramatic characters discuss pain. With respect to what pain is, including what kinds of pain there are, the most incisive discussions occur at Republic 583-587, Philebus 31-55, and Timaeus 64-65.1 The foci of these passages dif-fer from one another and do so in several ways. First the Republic and Philebus passages focus on pleasure. However Plato ...