I must be careful not to make the same uncsoncious mistake as my sister`s friend - who observed that there seemed to be

a great deal more male saints than female saints (deducing that men were `nicer`than women) in the fact that most of

the literature which is avilable to me is British literary or scientific works predominantly from the 19th but also 18th and 20th

centuries).

From this blog post:

(The full text is available in Google Books - I guess because it is so old. Hes a Scottish doctor - the book in the Harvard library)

Here`s something I`d like to get a hold of (found in GB) but I don`t know if I can - it`s from 1926 and no preview:

The literature and philosophy of melancholy at the end of the renaissance.

This one isn`t that great- "elements of mental philosophy" only p. 104 relates to melancholy - ONE THING I HAVEN`T DONE WITH ANY OF THESE IS LOOK UP SORROW - but it is interesting historically because it juxtpaoses with `cheerfulness`as did the other fellow... I wonder if he borrowed from him...

http://books.google.com/books?id=KKI3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA104&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=nBm8Soi7N46QNZfqtRk#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20as%20melancholy&f=false

"The living age" very interesting - only two or three pages in reviewing Dr. Johnson but it shows their correlation between the "liver" and how one sees the condition of the universe BUT ALSO the critical function AGAINST Pope's "fluent aphorism" - "Whatever is, is right." (p. 98)

http://books.google.com/books?id=OT6G-EsibNUC&pg=PA98&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=Kye8Spz-G5vcyQSAobG0Dw#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20as%20melancholy&f=false

Currently I have no access to this book - might be interesting however:

The melancholy science: an introduction to the thought of Theodor W. Adorno

By Gillian Rose

I am not interested in this at all but have run across 2 comments - 1 in the 40's and 1 from 1935 - on the relation btween a literally

black countenance and melancholy.

Gee, all this history!

Here`s a jewel I couldn`t help downloading for yuks and chuckles.

http://books.google.com/books?id=OygEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR4&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=1Su8StOmD4v-NZSU1Rk#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20as%20melancholy&f=false

`The young lady`s faithful remembrancer of obligations, responsibilities, and duties. quite funny.

Eight historical dissertations in suicide, chiefly in refernce to philosophy

full text in google (amazing how many are full text!) not that helpful - just suggests melancholy climate contributes

Melancholy and philosophy: Walter Benjamin's early writings

Can`t get a hold of - don`t know who Benjamin is.

Dialogical philosophy from Kierkegaard to Buber

only p. 68 is useful.

http://books.google.com/books?id=SXmA_dcaJsIC&pg=PA68&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=Si28SsGWJ5OwNov_uAg#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20as%20melancholy&f=false

Page 528

Page 542

Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1700-1740. Protestantism and the cult of sentiment (where above from)

Also more literary: The Gloomy egoist, moods and themes of melancholy from Gray to Keats

Don`t forget Boethius and the Consolation of Philosophy! Also full text on Google books.
(Most interesting - by-the-bye - a complete version of one volume of an 1877 Speculative Philosophy journal:http://books.google.com/books?id=R77yQuMdN2YC&pg=PA408&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=1Su8StOmD4v-NZSU1Rk#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20as%20melancholy&f=false

Quite interesting - following trend of other two early-mid 1800`s works I noted - cheerfulness and melancholy - talks ofsimple and instinctive emotions - `Mental Philosophy`it is also called:http://books.google.com/books?id=7mIAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA397&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=CzC8St-WFIPYNZuD3Bo#v=onepage&q=&f=false

MELANCHOLY AND SOCIETY - written 1992http://books.google.com/books?id=BT3aAAAAIAAJ&q=philosophy+as+melancholy&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=mC-8Sq6nIo7ayASvqPTNDw

Rare is the person who has never known the feelings of apathy, sorrow, and uselessness that characterize the affliction known as melancholy. In this book, one of Europe's leading intellectuals shows that melancholy is not only a psychological condition that affects individuals but also a social and cultural phenomenon that can be of considerable help in understanding the modern middle class. His larger topic is, in fact, modernity in general.

Lepenies focuses not on what melancholy is but on what it means when people claim to be melancholy. His aim is to examine the origin and spread of the phenomenon with relation to particular social milieux, and thus he looks at a variety of historical manifestations: the fictional utopian societies of the Renaissance, the ennui of the French aristocracy in the seventeenth century, the cult of inwardness and escapism among the middle class in eighteenth-century Germany. In each case he shows that the human condition is shaped by historical and societal forces--that apathy, boredom, utopian idealism, melancholy, inaction, and excessive reflection are the correlates of class-wide powerlessness and the failure of purposeful efforts.

Lepenies makes inventive use of an extraordinary range of sociological, philosophical, and literary sources, from Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy to the ideas of contemporary theorists such as Robert K. Merton and Arnold Gehlen. His study gains added richness from its examination of writers whose works express the melancholy of entire social classes--writers such as La Rochefoucauld, Goethe, and Proust. In his masterly analysis of these diverse ideas and texts, he illuminates the plight of people who have been cast aside by historical change and shows us the ways in which they have coped with their distress. Historians, sociologists, psychologists, students of modern literature, indeed anyone interested in the problems of modernity will want to read this daring and original book.

Nothing to do with my topic - but astounding nonetheless:

http://books.google.com/books?id=y4wEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false

history of all distinguished women `from creation`til that time - pretty interesting.

This isn`t very fruitful - talks about meats which affect melancholy on p. 310. But ancient and cute in a way.

http://books.google.com/books?id=m_c_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=CzC8St-WFIPYNZuD3Bo#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20as%20melancholy&f=false

Harleian miscellany - 16 or 1700`s.

HERE`s someting interesting - psychoanalytic approach - reviews Freud a bit:

Like Freud's "mourning and melancholia" to which they are indebted, Society without hte Father and The Inability to Mourn participate in a masculinist discourse of melancholy and mourning historically rooted in teh universalist poetic and philosophic traditions of European Renaissance humanism. Juliana Schiesari has drawn a detailed map of the misgynistic gender divisions which have shaped this discourse virtually transhistroically and regardless of the discipline in which they appear. From Ficino to Freud and Lacan, and from humoral medicine, philosophy, and literature to psychoanalysis, melancholy has been gendered and valued or disparaged as follows: First, "when melancholia is considered undesirable it is stereotypuically metaphorized as feminine or viewed as an affliction women bring onto men." (ftnt there). Second, female depression and grieving are "seen as the 'everyday' plight of the common (wo)man,... quotidian event(s) whose collective force does not seem to bear the same weight of 'seriousness' as a man's greif" - or the same need for special comment (ftnt 9). Third, when melancholy IS culturally valued, as it is with individual men of great accomplishment, it is deemed superior to mourning, a traditionally feminine ritual function that has been privatized and repressed. A final characteristic derives especially from Freud and his efforts to differentiate melancholia from conditions that are stereotypically feminine. (...)Schies. explains "A criterion of differentation (for Freud) is found in the NARCISSISTIC identiifcation said to be carried out by melancholia. This narcissistic basis for differentation is consonant with an implicit masculinizing of the neurosis," particularly in its culturally validated form (ftnt 10). Narcissism is gendered masculine here, because, "following Freud's logic, narcissitic identiifcation would be effected by the child through its identity with an ego ideal, whose paradigmatic case is that of the boy identifying with the father"; (ftnt 11) that is, Schiesari, unlike the Mitscherlichs, reads Freud's emphasis to be on secondary rather than primary narcissism.

VERY INTERESTING - THIS WAS FROM P. 4 and 5 of Feminism, film, fascism: women's auto/biographical film in postwar Germany (Linville).

p. 6 0 In the essay on melanchoy and mourning, Freud: "We see how in (the melancholic subject) one part of the ego sets itself over against hte other, judges it critically, and, as it were, takes it as its object.... What we are here becoming acquainted with is the agency commonly called 'conscience' (ftnt 18 i think) That is, Freud sees in the melancholic a strong identification with the father - in Lacanian terms, the law. Schiesari glosses Freud's account of the object which the paternal voice criticizes as folows: "My feminist suspicion is that this object, at once vilified, desired, and judged by a 'superior, moral' instance, is situated IN THE SAME WAY as woman in classic phallocentrism (that is, as a devalued object, as abject and at fault)" (Schiesari's emphaiss) a suspiciosn she proceeds to confirm.(ftnt 19) (...) Mitscherlichs and Hitler not as introjected father figure - but variant on "pre-oedipal, phallic mother"

(p. 8 - I just think the phenomenon, if rightly assessed would be interesting) "Schneider explains, "If the generation of the fathers had manicly defended against sorrows, melancholy, depression, and all the emotional problems which went along with it, the present generation is made up of little else." (ftnt 24)

Feminism - fascism - in (auto)biographical films - postwar Germany or something like that. (the text the above is derived from).

STUFF LIKE THIS OPENS UP QUESTIONS OF NARCISSISM - similar to this:

VERY HELPFUL MUST READ AND SOME STUFF THERE:

http://books.google.com/books?id=pHd0VtVBn1UC&pg=PA15&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=8ja8SuD3EqHqygSazMCxDw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

POSTMODERNISM AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY - READ TOMORROW!!!!

1988

http://books.google.com/books?id=RGLhuHLF7QMC&pg=PA302&dq=philosophy+as+melancholy&lr=&ei=AS-8SuSZHJiwMrnp6P4P#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20as%20melancholy&f=false

VERY INTERESTING - very short review of hamlet which shows author`s views on melancholy - p. 30 i think it was. HAMLET COULD FIGURE NICELY IN A HISTORICAL EXPOSITION ON MELANCHOLY

(WHY THE HISTORICAL APPROACH - have to defend or change around a little or make more philosophical at some point)

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proverbial philosophy

http://books.google.com/books?id=L3oGjSNkIowC&pg=PA183&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=FjK8StKlBoXiywS25_2tDw#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

p. 183-184 interesting poetry on sorrow

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History of Indian Philosophy

theme of sorrow and its dissolution - ftnt rf. 1

p. 509

http://books.google.com/books?id=L7VxwuVRP0EC&pg=PA509&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=FjK8StKlBoXiywS25_2tDw#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

little pious 19th cent. bok

http://books.google.com/books?id=kAMDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA93&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=FjK8StKlBoXiywS25_2tDw#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

philosophy at the ft of the cross - interesting of the english psychology

http://books.google.com/books?id=rQIDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA93&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=FjK8StKlBoXiywS25_2tDw#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

AGAIN INTERESTING HISTORICAL APPROACH:

Apologetic lectures on the saving truths of Christianity, tr. by S. Taylor‎ - Page 45
by Christoph Ernst Luthardt - 1872 - 80 pages
The theme of his philosophy is the sorrow of life. (3) But whatever we may think
of the various schemes of philosophy, and the various religions, ...
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A magazine - what is interesting is socio-historic appraoch - see p. 455
http://books.google.com/books?id=WgwHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA455&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=6ji8StewLaKUMsjH8Ag#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

p. 88 - journal of speculative philosophy -

praises sorrow

and then notes nothing more unreasonable than despair

http://books.google.com/books?id=YHkqP2JHJ_IC&pg=PA88&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=8ja8SuD3EqHqygSazMCxDw#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

LOOKS INTERESTING:

Thoughts‎ - Page 28
by Ivan Panin - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1887 - 124 pages
Sorrow is fermenting love ; love, clarified sorrow. 10. Philosophy reasons with
sorrow ; but the sorrow that can be reasoned with is not sorrow : it is ...
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ncient philosophy: a treatise of moral and metaphysical philosophy anterior ...‎ - Page 70
by Frederick Denison Maurice - Biography & Autobiography - 1861 - 260 pages
... but it will at least prove that his philosophy is not obsolete. ... If a
prince sorrows in the sorrows of his people, the people also sorrow in his ...
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Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind‎ - Page 13
by Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1826
Sudden joy, and sudden sorrow, even in their most violent extremes, might
succeed each other, reciprocally, in endless succession, without exciting
surprise ...
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COULDNT ACCESS THIS BUT LOOKS VERY USEFUL

Sartre, his philosophy and existential psychoanalysis‎ - Page 29

by Alfred Stern - Philosophy - 1967 - 276 pages

What is the answer to this question according to Sartre's philosophy? ... 11
Whereas Heidegger's "existence" is revealed as "sorrow" (Sorge, euro), ...

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MORE BIOGRAPHICAL oR POETICAL BUT VERY INTERESTING - OSCAR

WILDES PERSONAL LETTERS FROM PRISON A LOT OF SORROW
http://books.google.com/books?id=awi-R7i_9XsC&pg=PA104&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=Hjy8SsShLIbMM97D2Q4#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

Sartor resartus - interesting - worship of sorrow p. 375

http://books.google.com/books?id=GE3L1nKRLNkC&pg=PA374&philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=Ozy8Sq6qIpGCNILl3fQP#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

LITERARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND - CRITICIZES STRONGLY PHILOSOPHY OF SORROW beggining p. 323

http://books.google.com/books?id=R5svAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA323&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=lDq8StiJFZP4NfHD4QI#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

Orthodoxy‎ - Page 121
by Gilbert K. Chesterson - Religion - 2007 - 128 pages
But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that ...
It is said that Paganism is a religion of joy and Christianity of sorrow; ...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Familiar letters, ed. by F. J. Sanborn ...‎ - Page 168
by Henry David Thoreau - Biography & Autobiography - 1906
You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I
suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddest and most genuine sorrows
...
The philosophy of the Upanishads‎ - Page 57
by Paul Deussen - Philosophy - 1908 - 429 pages
Yet I have heard from such as are like you that he who knows the atman
vanquishes sorrow. I, however, most reverend sir, am bewildered. Lead me then
over, ...
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The Winnington letters: John Ruskin's correspondence with Margaret Alexis ...‎ - Page 82
by John Ruskin - Literary Criticism - 1969 - 739 pages
In "The Philosophy of Sorrow" she includes the comment that youth must learn
that sorrow is a discipline, that it "passes and leaves not wounds only, ...
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Philosophy of science‎ - Page 292
by Philosophy of Science Association - Philosophy - 1953
(b) We experience a mental emotional state, say sorrow, at time it. (c) We
undergo a bodily change which manifests itself as crying at time t 3. ...
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Philosophy and religion, with their mutual bearings considered and determined‎ - Page 354
by William Brown Galloway - 1837 - 80 pages
... similar emotions of joy and sorrow, and similar outward expressions of
inward emotion, it is easy for us to understand the joys and sorrows of others,
...
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Philosophy in the Middle Ages: the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions‎ - Page 97
by Arthur Hyman, James Jerome Walsh - Philosophy - 1967 - 747 pages
Let every man, then, reflect with sorrow upon all these great evils, ... But if
any man has no sorrow in his heart either when he suffers himself or when he ...
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VERY INTERESTING - see p. 585 - ethics of consolation

http://books.google.com/books?id=GYAfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA585&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=tD28SqSsL52sNZiEgRo#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

Philosophy and phenomenological research‎ - Page 419
by International Phenomenological Society, JSTOR (Organization) - Philosophy - 1963
And since there are cases in which there is both a displeasure of need and a
sorrow of want — normal hunger would be a good example — there may be three ...
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The Nibelungenlied‎ - Page 341
by Arthur Thomas Hatto - Poetry - 1969 - 403 pages
... a 'philosophy', or a more or less consistent attitude towards life ? ... No
resolution of the conflict of joy and sorrow is offered. Sorrow is left to ...
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A source-book in Jaina philosophy: an exhaustive and authoritative book in ...‎ - Page 433
by Devendra (Muni.), T. G. Kalghatgi, T. S. Devadoss - Religion - 1983 - 588 pages
... which suffer from sorrow, through passion and the increase of misery. The
souls that are free from misery do not attract sorrow. ...
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Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern‎ - Page 12252
edited by Charles Dudley Warner - History - 1897
The first thing that we have to contend against and despise, in sorrow as in
anger, ... I will be content to endure the sorrow that philosophy has left me:
...
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Ethics: an international journal of social, political and legal philosophy‎ - Page 269
by JSTOR (Organization) - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1915
Take, for instance, Mr. Shand 's formula about sorrow. "Sorrow tends to be
diminished by the close precedency and by the remembrance of other sorrow in our
...
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The story of Scottish philosophy: a compendium of selections from the ...‎ - Page 98
by Daniel Sommer Robinson - Philosophy - 1961 - 290 pages
Yet it may often happen, without any defect of humanity on our part, that, so
far from entering into the violence of his sorrow, we should scarce conceive ...
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Mahler‎ - Page 59
by Henry-Louis de La Grange - Music - 1973 - 982 pages
The paradoxical conception of sorrow, "my only consolation," inherited from the
romantics, is another essential motif in Mahler's philosophy and work. ...
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The Nineteenth century‎ - Page 495
Nineteenth century - 1877
And of all sorrows the sorrow of bereavement needs this aid the most. For to
some troubles a man may become indifferent by .philosophy, and from some he may
...
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New outlook‎ - Page 21
by Alfred Emanuel Smith - Business & Economics - 1913
Philosophy has not given this experience and philosophy cannot take it away. ...
joy and sorrow, hope and despair, aspiration and endeavor, and above all ...
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Discourses of Epictetus: With Encheiridion and Fragments and a Life of ...‎ - Page 152
by George Long - Philosophy - 2004 - 496 pages
But if 1 go away, I shall cause them sorrow. — You cause them sorrow? By no
means; but that will cause them sorrow which also causes you sorrow, opinion.
...
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Report of the proceedings‎ - Page 654
by Church congress - Political Science - 1888
You have sorrow ; Christ had sorrow. You have difficulty ; Christ had difficulty
. ... or else from above, that is to say, either a religion or a philosophy, ...
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An introduction to Sung poetry‎ - Page 29
by Kōjirō Yoshikawa - Literary Criticism - 1967 - 191 pages
The Sung poets, on the other hand, discussed philosophy directly, openly, ...
Those of the T'ang men do not; they are full of sorrow, and even a poet like ...
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Catholic world‎ - Page 557
by Paulist Fathers - Religion - 1867
Grief, disappointment, death, are to her philosophy but natural incidents, ...
In fact, this conception of sorrow as a hidden blessing is peculiarly strong ...
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The sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: in Plymouth church, Brooklyn‎ - Page 190
by Beecher, Henry Ward - History - 1869
Out of sorrow by going down ? Ah ! that is bad comfort. Out of sorrow by
resorting to stoical philosophy? It only hardens and toughens the fibre of
feeling. ...
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Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern‎ - Page 12252
edited by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner - History - 1902
The first thing that we have to contend against and despise, in sorrow as in
anger, ... I will be content to endure the sorrow that philosophy has left me:
...
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Woman in early Buddhist literature‎ - Page 11
by Meena Talim - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 242 pages
Slowly she understood the philosophy of sorrow and impermanence. In the despair
of darkness her feet led her to the threshold of a nunnery. ...
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Eight historical dissertations in suicide, chiefly in refernce to philosophy ...‎ - Page 67
by Henry Gabriel Migault - 1856
... and necessary ^relation of Sorrow to Virtue", the non-discernment of which
was, perhaps, -ihu most striking defect of all the Greek moral philosophy. ... (page 67 - interesting - of course referring to Christ...)
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PHILOSOPHICAL FINALLY

History of Western Philosophy‎ - Page 271
by Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 2004 - 778 pages
Uncomplicated joy and sorrow is not matter for philosophy, but rather for the
simpler kinds of poetry and music. Only joy and sorrow accompanied by ...
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talks about plotinus, etc:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ey94E3sOMA0C&pg=PA271&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=lDq8StiJFZP4NfHD4QI#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false
appears n 5 instances: http://books.google.com/books?id=Ey94E3sOMA0C&pg=PA271&dq=philosophy+of+sorrow&lr=&ei=lDq8StiJFZP4NfHD4QI#v=onepage&q=philosophy%20of%20sorrow&f=false

DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS _ SEARCHED SORROW
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