Pain
PAIN. Most religious traditions seek to minimize suffering and explain its causes. At the same time, many religions around the world promote painful behavior in specific ritual contexts and produ...
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Pain
Pain is one of the three existing physiologic types of somatic senses, the other two being the mechanoreceptive somatic sense and the thermo-receptive sense. The pain sense is activated by tissue...
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Pain
Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is carried to the brain by the nervous system. Injury is a major cause, but pain may also arise from an illness. It may accompany a psychological condition, suc...
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Pain
There is no consistent philosophical view concerning the nature of pain, how to understand it, or what an understanding of pain might mean for philosophy of mind. Just about every conceivable pos...
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Pain, Ethical Significance Of
Pain is a paradigm of an intrinsically bad mental state: It is an experience that is harmful to those who undergo it and makes their life go worse. Virtually all moral th...
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