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Apr 14, 2020

From the vaults: Can We Learn from Suffering?

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Danielle Sands/ Anatasia Scrutton/ Tom Stern Listen to the recording here The ‘most depressing lesson’ of suffering, Slavoj Žižek writes, is that ‘there is nothing to be learned from it’. Is Žižek’s bleak view convincing, or is there evidence to suggest that suffering can educate or even improve us? If so, do some types of physical … Continued The post From the vaults: Can We Learn from Suffering? first appeared on Forum for Philosophy.

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