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aponia

A nonspecific term of waning use, variously defined as:
(1) Freedom from pain—e.g., analgesia (preferred); 
(2) Freedom from fatigue;
(3) Absence of effort.
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En este sentido, el pensamiento epicureo se destaca por dos notorias actitudes: la practicidad de su filosofia y el hermetismo radical a las influencias externas del hombre a fin de perpetuar su felicidad, basada en un estado de paz autosuficiente y autarquica conocido como ataraxia (imperturbabilidad psicologica) y aponia (corporal).
The Epicurean notion of human flourishing rather has a distinctly Buddhist quality to it, characterized by the absence of physical pain (aponia) as well as by tranquility (ataraxia), requiring freedom from mental fear and disturbance.
Tal hipotese, em suas linhas centrais, aponia para a averiguacao da existencia ou nao de um nexo entre as mudancas ocorridas na acao do Estado em termos de suas politicas globais e setoriais--com fortes implicacoes na estruturacao do espaco metropolitano--e a producao cientifica.
De la mencion concreta de Septumio cabe colegir que el dedicante era, con toda probabilidad, una mujer, y que aquel era, bien su hijo, como en la pieza de Aponia Montana (CIL II2/5, 1166), bien su marido, como en la de Caecilia Trophime (CIL II2/5, 1165), posiblemente ya fallecidos en el momento de la donacion.
A prerequisite of serenity or ataraxia, "indifference" is the vehicle of an over-the-top Epicureanism predicated on aponia, absence of pain.
Aponia, ataraxia, blood thick as a milkshake, the very stereotype of a person who becomes an English aristocrat or a Tibetan monk.
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