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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      • October 4, 2023 at 9:34 AM
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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. Wenham - On Cicero's Interpretation of Katastematic Pleaure In Epicurus

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

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    2. The concept of resilience vs. ataraxia 5

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    2. The “Absence of Pain” Problem 11

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    2. Reasonings on Arrogance and Anger

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    2. Positive Emotions and Happiness

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

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

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    2. Modern Neuroscience And The Katastematic / Kinetic Debate 61

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    2. Maslow's hierarchy of needs 11

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

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    2. Is gratitude a katastematic or kinetic pleasure? 53

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

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    2. Epicurean Attitudes Toward Emotion 19

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    2. Emotions, reason, the body and more 2

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    2. Emotionlessness? The Epicurean View Is the Deeper Experience of Emotion!

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    2. Emotional states from an epicurean pov 8

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

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    2. Dialogue on Katastematic Pleasure 38

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      • February 16, 2018 at 4:33 PM
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    2. DeWitt: "It Makes No Difference That Some Pleasures Are Static And Some Are Kinetic" 20

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

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    2. Confidence in Katastematic Pleasure 47

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

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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. CNN Article on Reclaiming Sexual Pleasure

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

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    2. Article: Does Neutral Affect Exist?

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    2. Article on the Science of Guilty Pleasures 3

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