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Engraving by Jusepe de Ribera depicting the melancholic and world-weary figure of a poet. Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, [1] [2] resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute ...
Always easy to say, "Well if my SO would use violence against me, I would be gone in seconds", until you've lived through it. "I would never let someone treat me that way", until the one you love ...
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-19-504996-9. Spelman, E. V. (1995). Fruits of sorrow framing our attention to suffering. Boston, Mass., USA: Beacon Press. Ronald Anderson. World Suffering and Quality of Life, Social Indicators Research Series, Volume 56, 2015.
Humans have always sought to understand why they experience pain and how that pain comes about. While pain was previously thought to be the work of evil spirits [citation needed], it is now understood to be a neurological signal. However, the perception of pain is not absolute and can be impacted by various factors in including the context ...
Martian pain is, to him, pain which occupies the same causal role as our pain, but has a very different physical realization (e.g. the Martian feels pain due to the activation of an elaborate internal hydraulic system rather than, for example, the firing of C-fibers). Both of these phenomena, Lewis claims, are pain, and must be accounted for in ...
The goal was to see if objects that looked or sounded like they were getting closer would elicit fear within a group of test subjects. And they did. All of them.
The term panpsychism comes from the Greek pan (πᾶν: "all, everything, whole") and psyche (ψυχή: "soul, mind"). [7]: 1 The use of "psyche" is controversial because it is synonymous with "soul", a term usually taken to refer to something supernatural; more common terms now found in the literature include mind, mental properties, mental aspect, and experience.