Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements on Man and His Institutions by the Great Thinkers in Western HistoryMortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren Passages from the West's great written works, ranging from the Odyssey and the Old Testament to the Interpretation of Dreams and Ulysses, comment on love, knowledge, ethics, war, art, and other abiding topics. |
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... pain owing to the absence of plea- sure ; but when we do not feel pain , we no longer need pleasure . And for this cause we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed life . For we recognize pleasure as the first good innate in ...
... pain owing to the absence of plea- sure ; but when we do not feel pain , we no longer need pleasure . And for this cause we call pleasure the beginning and end of the blessed life . For we recognize pleasure as the first good innate in ...
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... pain and pleasure are two very considerable ones . For as in the body there is sensation barely in itself , or accompanied with pain or pleasure , so the thought or percep- tion of the mind is simply so , or else accompanied also with ...
... pain and pleasure are two very considerable ones . For as in the body there is sensation barely in itself , or accompanied with pain or pleasure , so the thought or percep- tion of the mind is simply so , or else accompanied also with ...
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... painful , then . . . that men are called brave . Hence also courage involves pain , and is justly praised ; for it is harder to face what is painful than to abstain from what is pleasant . Aristotle , Ethics , 1117a29 12 It is generally ...
... painful , then . . . that men are called brave . Hence also courage involves pain , and is justly praised ; for it is harder to face what is painful than to abstain from what is pleasant . Aristotle , Ethics , 1117a29 12 It is generally ...
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