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5 giorni fa · Nietzsche and the Problem of Suffering. Van Harvey on the metaphysical aspects of an anti-metaphysical philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche shared at least one fundamental concern with the religions and metaphysical systems that he so criticized: the problem of suffering and how one deals with it.
- Cassell’s Medical Humanism
- The Phenomenological Approach
- Losing The Self Or Finding The Self?
- Conceptualizing Suffering and Pain
The work The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine was first published in 1982 and has had considerable influence on the ensuing debate regarding the medical conceptualization and management of suffering and pain. In fact, this debate has not yet ended [24,25,26]. This work can be classified among the theoretical works of the “humanistic tu...
The phenomenological conceptualization of suffering and pain offers an attractive alternative to dualistic theories and the mechanical understanding of the body.Footnote 6 Contrary to the scientific approach, in which the body is seen from a third-person perspective, phenomenological proposals assume the perspective of the experience lived by a sub...
As stated before, it is still a challenge for medicine to deal with these subjective, unmeasurable dimensions of suffering and pain – and, moreover, their possible “unshareability” , although there have been crucial contributions like the Gate Control Theory, which has been decisive in including both the physiological and the psychological dimensio...
Conceptualizing suffering as an experience emphasizes the fact that it is something a person experiences (both what Dilthey calls a “lived experience” (Erlebnis), an immediate, unreflected experience and an “ordinary, articulated experience” (Lebenserfahrung) [46, 47]. We should not look at suffering as an abstract phenomenon, but as something expe...
- Noelia Bueno-Gómez
- Noelia.bueno-gomez@uibk.ac.at
- 2017
In short: suffering is unpleasantness that we want to stop. It seems clear that suffering, understood in this way, can undermine or destroy the meaning in a person’s life.
Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness or aversion, possibly associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena. The opposite of suffering is pleasure or happiness.
Suffering is the experience of physical or mental pain or discomfort, often as a result of illness, injury, or difficult life circumstances. It is a universal human experience, and one that can take many forms, from physical pain and discomfort to emotional distress and suffering.
The Gospel of suffering signifies not only the presence of suffering in the Gospel, as one of the themes of the Good News, but also the revelation of the salvific power and salvific significance of suffering in Christ's messianic mission and, subsequently, in the mission and vocation of the Church.
6 dic 2022 · Study by Edwards and van Tongeren (2020) indicates a mediating function of meaning in life between suffering and well-being. Their research suggests that especially past suffering—rather than present suffering—is highly correlated with high presence of meaning in life.
