A Study of Pleasure and PainTheosophical Press, 1962 - 97 من الصفحات The theme of this book is that pain is functional in the advancement and enrichment of life in nature and in man, therefore it should be received with understanding and consideration. The arguments found within are purely scientific and illustrated by examples in the lives of common people. Fully discussed are the topics of how pain arises and ceases and the different kinds of pain. |
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... evolution occurs , which was defined by the famous scientist Herbert Spencer , as follows : " Evolution is a progressive change from a state of incoherent homogeneity to a state of coherent heterogeneity of structure and function ...
... evolution occurs , which was defined by the famous scientist Herbert Spencer , as follows : " Evolution is a progressive change from a state of incoherent homogeneity to a state of coherent heterogeneity of structure and function ...
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... evolution is restored there is pleasure . Pleasure and pain , though a pair of opposites psychologically , are not so practically . They are not two extremes , two ends of a stick . In that stick pleasure is in the middle and pain is at ...
... evolution is restored there is pleasure . Pleasure and pain , though a pair of opposites psychologically , are not so practically . They are not two extremes , two ends of a stick . In that stick pleasure is in the middle and pain is at ...
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... evolution - there is something which we call social selection . Sometimes this is nothing more than the appre ... evolutionary benefit of the proposed marriage , the proposed combination . It seems , does it not , that mankind , or ...
... evolution - there is something which we call social selection . Sometimes this is nothing more than the appre ... evolutionary benefit of the proposed marriage , the proposed combination . It seems , does it not , that mankind , or ...
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action activity animal antelope anxiety attention awakening better Bhagavad Gita bodily body Buddha called cause Chapter coherence comes consciousness death doctrine emotional pains enhancement enjoyment Epictetus Epicurean evolution example experience extent eyes fact faculties feeling function further give grow happiness Hindu human hunger ice-cream idea impulse individual intellect intelligence interest Jesus Julian Huxley kind knowledge law of karma legs living look lower mind material forms matter means meditation memory ment mental modern nature nirvana object observed old age one's organs ovum paramecium Patanjali PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY perhaps person picture plants pleasure present psychosis purusha realization reason regard Sankhya Sanskrit seen self-image sense sexual selection Sir Edwin Arnold sometimes speak stages Stoic Theosophical Society Theosophists things thinking thought tion tree trouble true truth uncon unity word Yoga Yoga Sutras