The Feelings / Passions / Internal Sensations: Pleasure and Pain

Feeling: The Faculty of Pleasure and Pain

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    2. Discussion of Article: "On Pleasure, Pain and Happiness" 54

      • Elayne
      • July 12, 2019 at 5:22 PM
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    2. Response to Pain; Positive Thinking ? Comparision with Cynics and (modern) Stoics 22

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      • August 23, 2022 at 5:05 AM
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    2. Various ideas of happiness 32

      • Godfrey
      • August 13, 2021 at 2:26 AM
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      August 14, 2021 at 9:46 AM

    2. Article discussing interoception and the gut feeling 2

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    2. "Facts don't care about your feelings." 24

      • Don
      • November 6, 2020 at 10:05 AM
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      November 13, 2020 at 7:48 AM

    2. Can an octopus be an Epicurean? 8

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    2. Feeling - Direct Tribute to "Feeling" in Music

      • Cassius
      • January 14, 2020 at 10:03 PM
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    2. 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
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    2. 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
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    2. Thoughts on continuous pleasure, hedonic regimen 4

      • Godfrey
      • August 29, 2019 at 8:45 PM
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    2. All Pleasure Is Desirable, Because It Is Pleasing To Us, But Is All Pleasure *Equally* Desirable? 25

      • Cassius
      • May 12, 2018 at 6:33 AM
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      May 12, 2018 at 6:33 AM

    2. Pleasure and Pain as the Only Two Categories of Feeling, and the Issue of their "Blending"

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    2. The General Question - Dealing with Vulcans and Ayn Rand - "Emotions are not tools of Cognition"

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      • January 2, 2017 at 10:57 AM
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    2. Passions / Emotions / Feelings - The Second Leg of the Canon of Truth

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      • January 2, 2017 at 10:55 AM
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    2. Philebus: The Problem With Trying To Separate Pleasure From Wisdom

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:11 PM
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    2. Some Problems with Utilitarian Hedonism

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      • May 18, 2015 at 11:10 AM
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