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... pleasure to read but will also inspire you to uncover new (or long-forgotten) pleasures. Along with sharing stories about my friends and my son, Jaya, I also write about Jason, my common-law partner of almost twenty years. I refer to ...
... pleasure to read but will also inspire you to uncover new (or long-forgotten) pleasures. Along with sharing stories about my friends and my son, Jaya, I also write about Jason, my common-law partner of almost twenty years. I refer to ...
Page 3
... pleasure is connected with an increase and pain with an abatement of some or all of the vital functions , and secondly that pleasure accompanies the moderate dis- charge of nervous activity up to a point not exceeding the powers of ...
... pleasure is connected with an increase and pain with an abatement of some or all of the vital functions , and secondly that pleasure accompanies the moderate dis- charge of nervous activity up to a point not exceeding the powers of ...
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... Pleasure drives actions, even to the point of a person committing suicide, which is seemingly far from pleasure. When the present moment lacks pleasure severely enough, ending all future similar moments would provide him what he seeks ...
... Pleasure drives actions, even to the point of a person committing suicide, which is seemingly far from pleasure. When the present moment lacks pleasure severely enough, ending all future similar moments would provide him what he seeks ...
Page 31
... pleasure, especially for the greatest pleasure on offer, the dishes would eventually smell of rot. You might be watching the sun set in Greece, but you would be doing it without a job. Epicurus denies there are two competing motives at ...
... pleasure, especially for the greatest pleasure on offer, the dishes would eventually smell of rot. You might be watching the sun set in Greece, but you would be doing it without a job. Epicurus denies there are two competing motives at ...
Page 33
... pleasure [...]. To be sure, as an inducement to coitus, genital pleasure is an essential lubricant in the evolutionary engine of humans.... None would deny, either, that sexual pleasure is a profoundly organic phenomenon, the ...
... pleasure [...]. To be sure, as an inducement to coitus, genital pleasure is an essential lubricant in the evolutionary engine of humans.... None would deny, either, that sexual pleasure is a profoundly organic phenomenon, the ...
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