Questions tagged [pain-and-pleasure]
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Can rocks suffer on panpsychism?
On panpsychism, everything has consciousness. If so, does it entail that all entities in the universe, such as rocks, bricks, plants, water, air, etc., can experience suffering? If this holds, what ...
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Is it justified to communicate one’s feelings regarding someone’s abortion decision? [closed]
Note-1: Due to the question being subjective and opinion based nature, as well as due to it is touching a controversial issue, I have voted to close my own question, with keeping the existing ...
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What would happen if I suddenly lost consciousness?
What would happen if I (my body) suddenly lost consciousness? Let's say a freak accident caused the part of my brain responsible for connecting/creating/hallucinating my "being", my ...
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Can we suffer without suffering harm?
It seems that suffering is the more general term, if only because any harm that someone undergoes is suffered by them. Is there anything that we suffer that is not a harm? I didn't win the sprint, and ...
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Higher education knowledge and high school knowledge and pleasure
This post wonders about the levels of pleasure that can be attained using high school only knowledge as compared to using higher education knowledge (assuming all pleasurable activities are related to ...
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What are the arguments for sadism?
What are the arguments for and against concerted - intentional - efforts to make people suffer? I assume it's kind of vapid, but many people seem to enjoy making other people unhappy etc., a sort of ...
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Does the focus on "humane" killing of animals distract from the real moral problem of killing?
"Humane" in respect to killing animals means to minimize the animal's pain as they die.
But this seems to completely sidestep the moral issue with killing, which has nothing to do with the ...
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Philosophical school of thought that includes "unsatisfaction" or "the yearning for more" as a key component of "happiness"
What is the philosophical term for Callicle's position here? The quotes are from Plato's Gorgias.
SOCRATES: [...] Tell me, then:—you say, do you not, that in the rightly-developed man the passions ...
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Why care for anything in life? [closed]
Great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his Thus spoke Zarathustra told us a man should become an ‘ overman ‘ or ‘ ubermensch ‘i.e. someone who believes in the nihilism of the universe (Believing ...
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What is Nietzsche saying about pain? [closed]
I am not thinking of any passage of Nietzsche's in particular. However, it's well known he valued pain for what it brings about in some people. But then I'm told he didn't valorise it, which I suppose ...
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Is the existence or causing of suffering inherently bad?
Looked at rationally, suffering is existing neurons evaluating certain stimuli to be negative. How does one argue that causing suffering or the existence of suffering is inherently bad?
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How can the sensation of pain be explained materialistically?
Physicalism, be it reductionist or holistic, tries to explain every phenomenon by materialisic processes. These can be seen as noumenon, existing independently of human beings.
But the true nature of ...
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Unbearable suffering exists. Therefore, is it worth to live? [closed]
The human being does not have full control over their life. In extreme cases, life can turn into pure happiness or unbearable suffering. Moreover, humans can end up in a situation, where escape from ...
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Which things are worth doing in life and which are not? How do we distinguish them?
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Why we can't (or shouldn't) seek the things that give us direct
pleasure (like drugs).
Most people would think taking drugs is not worth doing.
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Epicurus believed ...
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Does Stoicism condone passivity?
According to Google, Stoicism means:
"The endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint."
So does it mean that amid most difficult circumstances where ...
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