[Anne Conway's mysterious illness and its philosophical consequences].
This article presents the influence of Anne Conway's illness on her philosophical views. Anne Conway (1631-1679) was an English thinker of the Cambridge Platonist school. In the article the symptoms of the illness and the method of the treatment are described. Also, some of Conway's philosophical concepts, which in the opinion of the author of the article were influenced by the feeling of pain, are presented. These are: the substantial monism, the rejection of the concept of death as the annihilation of a particular being, the importance of pain in the individual's self-improvement.
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Joanna
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