Bodily pleasure
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
al-ladhdhāt al-badanīyah · al-shahawāt al-badanīyah · hayūlānī · pleasure · the pleasures of the senses · الشهوات البدنية · اللذات البدنية · الهيولاني
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Bodily and material pleasure, food, drink, clothing and intercourse, analysed as mere relief of appetitive pain rather than true delight.
many ignorant people, and some who make themselves out to be men of learning, have claimed that pleasure in its entirety is the bodily kind, and that there is no bliss but the material (*hayūlānī*);
these bodily pleasures are not pleasures in truth, but only causes of the inclination of bodily appetite.
De legendis gentilium libris
Sensory pleasure, which the passage repeatedly urges the young to despise or strictly limit.
Now the cleansing of the soul, to speak summarily and sufficiently for you, is to despise the pleasures that come through the senses—not to feast the eyes on the absurd displays of jugglers or on sights of bodies that send forth a sting of pleasure, nor to pour through the ears a corrupting melody upon the souls.
And what could one say about the duty of not pursuing the pleasures of touch and taste, except that these constrain men who have given their leisure to hunting them down to live, like cattle, bent over the belly and what is below it?
so great is the difference whether one is filled with sound or with corrupt melody.