The Meanings of Suffering
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September-October 1998 Suffering is one of the most profound and disturbing of human experiences. The very word suffering has a resonance that relates to our sense of life’s meaning and the threat suffering poses to our hopes of happiness. It does not refer just to maladies, pains, and difficulties with which we can and should cope. It involves crises and threats that constitute a degradation or alienation of our being. It is the spiritual dimension of our existence or the “contemplative” aspect of our being, to use Aristotle’s term, not only the bodily aspects of our selves, that is implicated in suffering.
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