Only Two Feelings - Pleasure and Pain - The Term Pleasure Includes Tranquility, Meaningfulness, Katastematic, Kinetic, Etc.

The Term Pleasure Includes Bodily as well as Mental Pleasures Such As Tranquility, Meaningfulness, Katastematic, Kinetic, Etc. Likewise The Term Pain Includes All Bodily and Mental Pains.

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    2. Key Citations - Only Two Feelings: Pleasure And Pain

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    2. Confusion: "The feelings are only two" 49

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    2. The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11

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    2. Competing Greek Words for Pleasure in the Epicurean Corpus? 12

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    2. Article on the Science of Guilty Pleasures 3

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    2. Choice & Avoidance: towards a better translation for avoidance 38

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    2. Is [X] a waste of time? 26

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    2. Dialogue on Katastematic Pleasure 38

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    2. Reasonings on Arrogance and Anger

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    2. Emotions, reason, the body and more 2

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    2. Emotional states from an epicurean pov 8

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    2. Modern Neuroscience And The Katastematic / Kinetic Debate 61

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    2. Latest video from Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett - "How Emotions Work" 1

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    2. Confidence in Katastematic Pleasure 47

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    2. Do Pigs Value Katastematic Pleasure? ( Summer 2022 K / K Discussion) 167

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    2. CNN Article on Reclaiming Sexual Pleasure

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    2. A Food Analogy That May Be Useful In Thinking About Stimulative vs Non-Stimulative Pleasures 7

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    2. Comparing "Pleasure = Absence of Pain" to "Body = Absence of Void;" A Cite to Lucretius 1:503 6

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    2. Pleasures of the Mind In Comparison To Pleasures of the Body 3

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    2. The Sweeping Nature Of The Word "Pleasure" 3

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    2. On The Need To "Fulfill Your Nature" By Pursuing Your Natural Dispositions 2

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    2. What A Mess This K / K Issue Is - Here is Someone Saying These are "The Most Dominant Terms In Epicurus' Theory of Pleasures" 7

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    2. Epicurean Attitudes Toward Emotion 19

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    2. Another Article Insisting On The Importance of the Kinetic / Katestematic Distinction, Despite Citing Nikolsky 16

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