How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?

Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, histo

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