This lecture examines Aristotle’s distinction between bodily pleasures subject to temperance (touch and taste) and higher sense pleasures (sight, hearing, smell) that operate differently. The key argument is that temperance concerns only those pleasures shared with animals—primarily food and sex—while aesthetic pleasures of seeing beauty, hearing music, or enjoying fragrances belong to distinctly human capacities and require different ethical frameworks. The discussion challenges common approaches in Jewish ethics (mussar) that rely on emotional arousal rather than habituation, arguing that virtue develops through specific, repeated actions in particular domains rather than through general inspiration or willpower.