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Christianity and Greek Philosophy

Note (return) — Chapter XIII

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2. The second kind of pleasure is the pleasure of repose, tranquillity, impassibility (ἡδονὴ καταστηµατική). This is a state, a "condition," rather than a motion. It is "the freedom of the body from pain, and the soul from confusion." 775 This is perfect and unmixed happiness--the happiness of God; and he who attains it "will be like a god among men." "The storm of the soul is at an end, and body and soul are perfected."

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