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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الصفحة 8
... function . " Homogeneity is simplicity and uniformity of content , as in the case of homogenized milk , and in the earlier and lower forms . in nature these homogeneous parts do not act for the maintenance of one another . Heterogeneity ...
... function . " Homogeneity is simplicity and uniformity of content , as in the case of homogenized milk , and in the earlier and lower forms . in nature these homogeneous parts do not act for the maintenance of one another . Heterogeneity ...
الصفحة 16
... functions , or improvement of such as we have , and its increase of " coherence " or co - ordi- nation . In ... function without reference to its harmony with the others . But it may well be concerned - in connection with mating ...
... functions , or improvement of such as we have , and its increase of " coherence " or co - ordi- nation . In ... function without reference to its harmony with the others . But it may well be concerned - in connection with mating ...
الصفحة 47
... function of pain in the evolutionary process holds good . It is a function , of course , of a negative kind , inasmuch as the evolution takes place through efforts to eliminate specific pains . Let us briefly review it . The pain of ...
... function of pain in the evolutionary process holds good . It is a function , of course , of a negative kind , inasmuch as the evolution takes place through efforts to eliminate specific pains . Let us briefly review it . The pain of ...
المحتوى
Pain Among the Animals | 7 |
Plants Animals and Babies | 13 |
Old Age and the Stages of Life | 19 |
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action activity animal antelope anxiety attention awakening better Bhagavad Gita bodily body Buddha called cause Chapter coherence comes consciousness death desires doctrine emotional pains enhancement enjoying enjoyment Epictetus Epicurean evolution example experience extent eyes fact faculties Father feeling function further give grow 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 merely modern nature nirvana object observed old age one's organs ovum paramecium Patanjali perhaps person philosopher picture 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