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Martian pain is, to him, pain which occupies the same causal role as our pain, but has a very different physical realization (e.g. the Martian feels pain due to the activation of an elaborate internal hydraulic system rather than, for example, the firing of C-fibers). Both of these phenomena, Lewis claims, are pain, and must be accounted for in ...
12. “The law is reason, free from passion.” 13. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” 14. “We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.”
In a postscript to "Mad Pain and Martian Pain" (published in Philosophical Papers, Volume I), Lewis takes a critical view of qualia.He explicitly identifies pain with qualia, observing that, "We say to the friend of qualia that, beneath his tendentious jargon, he is just talking pain and various aspects of its functional role."
14. "Chronic pain is not all about the body and it's not all about the brain—it's everything. Target everything. Take back your life." — Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, Pain and the Brain 15.
But this religious conception did not prevent Early Modern Physicians from being concerned by the problem of pain: [5] they tried to cure it with pain-killers called "anodynes", they discussed the problem of the phantom-pain, described in the 16th century by the surgeon Ambroise Paré; and they proposed rich descriptions of the signs of pain. [6]
While the pursuit of pleasure formed the focal point of the philosophy, this was largely directed to the "static pleasures" of minimizing pain, anxiety and suffering. From this understanding, Epicureans concluded that the greatest pleasure a person could reach was the complete removal of all pain, both physical and mental. [ 52 ]
Embrace these quotes from one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy.
A priori and a posteriori; A series and B series; Abductive reasoning; Ability; Absolute; Absolute time and space; Abstract and concrete; Adiaphora; Aesthetic emotions