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Reading Epicurus: Pleasure and Pain #41

Reading Epicurus: Pleasure and Pain #41

Is pleasure really just the absence of pain?

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Nov 23, 2020
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Epicurus has this to say about pleasure:

"The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of b…

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