epicurus said pleasure is the absence of pain.
epicurus said pleasure is the absence of pain.
who said pleasure is the absence of pain?
epicurus
as with the other hellenistic schools of philosophy, the epicureans believed that the goal of human life is happiness. the epicureans defined pleasure as the absence of pain (mental and physical), and hence pleasure can only increase until the point in which pain is absent. beyond this, pleasure cannot increase further, and indeed one cannot rationally seek bodily pleasure beyond the state of "aponia". for epicurus, "aponia" was one of the static ("katastematic") pleasures, that is, a pleasure one has when there is no want or pain to be removed. to achieve such a state, one has to experience kinetic pleasures, that is, a pleasure one has when want or pain is being removed.
aponia
in terms of semantics, linguists can see three different types of relationships based on these constructions. those relationships are relationships where the possessor and the possessee can part, relationships in which the possessor and the possessee cannot part but the possessor has complete control over the possessee, and a relationship in which the possessor and the possessee cannot part but the possessee has an effect on the possessor. an example of the last relationship would be a body part. kinship is a bit strange because it appears in all three categories. linguists do not know why this is. they can only assume that it is because of historical reasons. as far as kinship goes, some examples of inalienable kinships and alienable kinships are in the following table.
saliba language (papua new guinea)