tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30379986.post3274732854006455218..comments2023-12-10T07:55:27.177+00:00Comments on kenodoxia: Private painJames Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262258553733864003noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30379986.post-34177510114286952942007-08-16T09:25:00.000+01:002007-08-16T09:25:00.000+01:00Can an individual's experience be generalized to a...Can an individual's experience be generalized to and by others? If so, is this an innate capacity we all have, or something only certain individuals are capable of? <BR/><BR/>Childbirth, say, or deafness - are these experiences? Are they sharable (and how in that case) with people not birth canal mothers or deaf?<BR/><BR/>Is a god contemplating pain in the same position as a man (say Socrates) contemplating childbirth?<BR/><BR/>Omnis enim per se divom natura necesse est<BR/>immortale aevo summa cum pace fruatur, <BR/>semota a nostris rebus, seiunctaque longe.<BR/>Nam privata dolore omni, privata periclis...Choppahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980510007443012482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30379986.post-10139683472625021062007-08-03T03:29:00.000+01:002007-08-03T03:29:00.000+01:00Of course, just as the description of the inner sa...Of course, just as the description of the inner sanctum is enabled by shared architectural vocabulary, so may be the description of the pain of gout. That Adam Swenson insisted, in a class which I had with him, that certain pains cannot be imagined properly on the basis of other pains, and so likely wouldn't defend Sextus, but just as a satisfactory mental picture of a detailed space may require well-developed sensitivity to such matters, so may a person such as myself who has attentively suffered many pains be able to imagine gout in a fairly accurate way, I think. Does Sextus describe any mechanisms of pain?Magister Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014424379801392658noreply@blogger.com