Pleasure and Pain


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1 The nature of pleasure and pain.
2 The causes of pleasure and pain.
3 The effects or concomitants of pleasure and pain.
4 The kinds of pleasure and pain, different qualities of pleasure.
5 The pleasant and unpleasant in the sphere of emotion, joy and sorrow, delight and grief.
6 Sensuous pleasure, the affective quality of sensations.
7 Intellectual pleasure, the pleasures of reflection and contemplation.
8 Pleasure in the beauty of nature or art, disinterested pleasure.
9 The pleasure and pain of learning and knowledge.
10 The pleasures of play and diversion.
11 The kinds of pain, the pain of sense and the pain of loss or deprivation.
12 The quantity of pleasure, the weighing of pleasures, the limits of pleasure.
13 Pleasure and the good.
14 Pleasure as the only good or as the measure of goodness in all other things.
15 Pleasure as one good among many, pleasure as one object of desire.
16 Good and bad pleasures, higher and lower pleasures.
17 Pleasure as the accompaniment of goods possessed, the satisfaction of desire.
18 Pleasure as intrinsically evil or morally indifferent.
19 Pleasure and happiness, their distinction and relation.
20 Pleasure and pain in relation to love and friendship.
21 The life of pleasure contrasted with other modes of life, the ascetic life.
22 The discipline of pleasure.
23 Pleasure and pain in relation to virtue, the restraints of temperance and the endurance of courage.
24 The conflict between pleasure and duty, or the obligations of justice, the pleasure principle and the reality principle.
25 Perversions or degradations in the sphere of pleasure and pain, sadism and masochism.
26 The regulation of pleasures by law.
27 The social utility of pleasure and pain.
28 The employment of pleasure and pain by parent or teacher in moral and mental training lob.
29 The use of pleasure and pain by orator or statesman in persuasion and government.


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