... was sensual pleasure. Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno had nothing against sensual experience per se, but since it involved the body, rather than the mind or soul, these philosophers concluded that any lower animal could experience the phenomenon, and they felt that it required resources and time which could be better spent focusing on mind and spirit. Thus, the ancient Greek ... philosophers adopted Zoroastor's Dualism and concluded that sensual pleasure was mutually exclusive with development of the mind and spirit. This permitted the philosophers to locate humankind ... works became Catholi...

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