Pain and Suffering: In Conversation with Paul Ricœur

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  • Jennifer Corns University of Glasgow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2024.672

Palabras clave:

Ricœur, suffering, pain, differences between pain and suffering, agency

Resumen

In this contribution, I focus on three key questions that arise when engaging with Ricœur’s lecture, “Suffering is Not Pain.” The first is the methodological issue concerning the philosopher’s role, particularly in taxonomizing. I will examine mental taxonomy, as well as taxonomy more broadly, before turning to pain and suffering more specifically. I then move to Ricœur’s characterization and contrast of suffering and pain throughout the lecture. Following this, I expand on Ricœur’s definition of suffering as a diminution of the power to act by incorporating my own account of suffering as a significant disruption to agency. I explore how this expanded view can contribute to a deeper investigation of Ricœur’s agentive hypothesis of suffering within each of his three identified “moments” of suffering, thus enhancing our understanding of the specific agentive challenge that suffering represents.

Citas

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Jennifer Corns ed., The Routledge handbook of philosophy of pain (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), 1.

Jennifer Corns ed., The complex reality of pain (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020).

Jennifer Corns ed., “Suffering as significantly disrupted agency,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 105, no 3 (2022a), 706–729.

Jennifer Corns ed., “Pain, the body, and awareness,” in The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness, ed. Adrian J. T. Alsmith and Matthew R. Longo (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022b), 355–365.

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2024-12-20

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Vol. 15 Núm. 2 (2024)

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