Is pain an emotion? Some taxonomic considerations with a comparative review

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After some remarks regarding the polysemy of pain and emotion, I set forward a criterion for the selection of philosophers which I consider in the main part of the paper. I then present and analyse the views of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, Hobbes, Descartes and Spinoza on pain as an emotion. Finally, I focus on the four meanings of pain and conclude that the lexical ambiguity of the concept of pain mirrors the complexity of pain.

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2026-10-13

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Zaborowski, R. (2026). Is pain an emotion? Some taxonomic considerations with a comparative review. Analecta. Studia I Materiały Z Dziejów Nauki, 28(1), 9–26. Pobrano z https://wydawnictwo.pan.pl/index.php/a/article/view/7326