The Feelings / Passions / Internal Sensations: Pleasure and Pain
Feeling: The Faculty of Pleasure and Pain
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Discussion of Article: "On Pleasure, Pain and Happiness" 54
- Elayne
July 12, 2019 at 5:22 PM
- Elayne
February 12, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Response to Pain; Positive Thinking ? Comparision with Cynics and (modern) Stoics 22
- Matteng
August 23, 2022 at 5:05 AM
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Various ideas of happiness 32
- Godfrey
August 13, 2021 at 2:26 AM
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Article discussing interoception and the gut feeling 2
- Godfrey
August 13, 2021 at 2:09 AM
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August 13, 2021 at 2:32 PM
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"Facts don't care about your feelings." 24
- Don
November 6, 2020 at 10:05 AM
- Don
November 13, 2020 at 7:48 AM
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Can an octopus be an Epicurean? 8
- Don
July 13, 2020 at 5:05 PM
- Don
July 14, 2020 at 12:59 PM
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Feeling - Direct Tribute to "Feeling" in Music
- Cassius
January 14, 2020 at 10:03 PM
- Cassius
January 14, 2020 at 10:03 PM
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Can We Experience Pleasure in One Part of Our Experience and Pain In Another Part of our Experience At the Same Time? 22
- Cassius
January 5, 2020 at 8:57 AM
- Cassius
January 6, 2020 at 10:34 PM
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Reference to How Pleasure and Pain Can Coexist In Different Parts of the Body at The Same Time:
- Cassius
October 12, 2019 at 11:52 AM
- Cassius
October 12, 2019 at 11:52 AM
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Thoughts on continuous pleasure, hedonic regimen 4
- Godfrey
August 29, 2019 at 8:45 PM
- Godfrey
August 31, 2019 at 2:28 AM
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All Pleasure Is Desirable, Because It Is Pleasing To Us, But Is All Pleasure *Equally* Desirable? 25
- Cassius
May 5, 2018 at 6:10 AM
- Cassius
May 12, 2018 at 6:33 AM
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Pleasure and Pain as the Only Two Categories of Feeling, and the Issue of their "Blending"
- Cassius
May 11, 2018 at 4:30 PM
- Cassius
May 11, 2018 at 4:30 PM
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The General Question - Dealing with Vulcans and Ayn Rand - "Emotions are not tools of Cognition"
- Cassius
January 2, 2017 at 10:57 AM
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January 2, 2017 at 10:57 AM
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Passions / Emotions / Feelings - The Second Leg of the Canon of Truth
- Cassius
January 2, 2017 at 10:55 AM
- Cassius
January 2, 2017 at 10:55 AM
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Philebus: The Problem With Trying To Separate Pleasure From Wisdom
- Cassius
September 24, 2016 at 3:11 PM
- Cassius
September 24, 2016 at 3:11 PM
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Some Problems with Utilitarian Hedonism
- Hiram
May 18, 2015 at 11:10 AM
- Hiram
May 18, 2015 at 11:10 AM
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Would Epicurus say: "Infinite Time contains no more pain than limited time when the limit of pain is measured by reason?" 15
- Cassius
July 20, 2024 at 10:44 PM - General Discussion
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The Normal Curve of Pleasure 5
- kochiekoch
July 22, 2024 at 1:28 PM - General Discussion
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Emily Austin conversation rebroadcast on Next Big Idea! 2
- Don
July 23, 2024 at 9:33 AM - General Discussion
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"If You Wish To Be An Epicurean, Get Used To Being Called 'Cockeyed'" - or - "Why Vatican Saying 29 Would Make A Good Epicurean Tatoo" 3
- Cassius
July 9, 2024 at 7:57 AM - General Discussion
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Does PD26 imply personal responsibility beyond oneself? 4
- Godfrey
July 11, 2024 at 3:22 PM - PD 26 - Of desires, all that do not lead to a sense of pain...
- Godfrey
July 11, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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