Intolérable tolérance

Paul Ricœur et les paradoxes de la souffrance

Authors

  • Serge Margel Université de Neuchâtel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2024.675

Keywords:

suffering, pain, power, tolerance, narrative

Abstract

After distinguishing between suffering, which is always subjective, reflexive and narrative, and pain, which is always localized in the body, Ricoeur approaches suffering from two angles: on the one hand, as an alteration in the relationship to oneself and to others, and on the other, as a reduction in the power to act. On this basis, this study will attempt to show that suffering is a question of power. A suffering being is a living being who can suffer. The subject is a being who can suffer its suffering, tolerate it, endure it. To suffer is to experience a reduction in one's power to act and think. It means losing one's power, until one can no longer suffer or tolerate one's suffering.

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2024-12-20

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2024)

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