 Here Aristotle seems to be arguing the following: music imitates character, that is, various dispositions and emotional states; the musical imitation of such states generates pleasure in the listener; so, if we restrict musical imitations to those of morally praiseworthy states, listeners will be pleased at such states in real life. Aristotle is relying on the assumption that the pleasure accompanying our engagement with an imitation will extend to the experience of the imitated object in real life. As he expresses it: