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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 ...
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.
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.”
Melancholy by Domenico Fetti (1612). Death, suffering and meaninglessness are the main themes of philosophical pessimism. Philosophical pessimism is a philosophical tradition which argues that life is not worth living and that non-existence is preferable to existence.
The Culture of Pain. Berkeley: University of California, 2002. ISBN 0-520-08276-1; Elaine Scarry. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-19-504996-9. Spelman, E. V. (1995). Fruits of sorrow framing our attention to suffering. Boston, Mass., USA: Beacon Press. Ronald Anderson.
These 75 famous and popular quotes by Epictetus continue to spark conversation among today’s students and followers of Stoic philosophy, as well as regular folks who just want some inspiration ...
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]
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." (p. 130).