[Pain and suffering, in the footsteps of Paul Ricoeur].
Understanding pain, enduring it, accepting it or detaching oneself from it: numerous philosophers have tackled this task. For suffering is existing. Suffering is part of life. Paul Ricoeur postulates a distinction between pain and suffering which relates pain to the body and suffering to reflexivity, language or the relationship with oneself. Suffering thereby becomes that through which I recognize myself and I recognize the Other.
Université Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée. p.svandra@ch-sainte-anne.fr
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