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... pleasure as heat is a pain . But if you grant it to be even a small pleasure , it serves to make good my conclusion . Hyl .: I could rather call it an " indolence . " It seems to be nothing more than a privation of both pain and ...
... pleasure as heat is a pain . But if you grant it to be even a small pleasure , it serves to make good my conclusion . Hyl .: I could rather call it an " indolence . " It seems to be nothing more than a privation of both pain and ...
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... pleasure , for we are not impartial judges of pleasure . Hence our attitude towards pleasure must be like that of the elders of the people in the Iliad towards Helen , and we must constantly apply the words they use ; for if we dismiss ...
... pleasure , for we are not impartial judges of pleasure . Hence our attitude towards pleasure must be like that of the elders of the people in the Iliad towards Helen , and we must constantly apply the words they use ; for if we dismiss ...
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... pleasurable sensations , except the general suffrage of those who are familiar with both ? Neither pains nor pleasures are homogeneous , and pain is always heterogeneous with pleasure . What is there to decide whether a particular pleasure ...
... pleasurable sensations , except the general suffrage of those who are familiar with both ? Neither pains nor pleasures are homogeneous , and pain is always heterogeneous with pleasure . What is there to decide whether a particular pleasure ...
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Socratic Wisdom 2 Bertrand Russell The Value of Philosophy Suggestions for Further Reading Part II Philosophy of Religion Introduction Can we pr... | 1 |
A Critique of the Cosmological Argument | 2 |
The Watch and the Watchmaker | 3 |
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