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Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering : What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All /
It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition-which leads to a question that has proved just as inescapable throughout the centuries: Why? Why do we suffer? Why do people die young? Is...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Introduction. The Paradox of Pointless Suffering -- |t Part One. Three Modern Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering -- |t One. We Should Eliminate Pointless Suffering -- |t Two. We Should Embrace Pointless Suffering -- |t Three. We Must Take Responsibility for Pointless Suffering -- |t Interlude on the Problem of Evil -- |t Part Two. Four Perennial Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering -- |t Four. Pointless Suffering Reveals God -- |t Five. Pointless Suffering Atones Us with Nature -- |t Interlude on Heaven and Hell -- |t Six. Pointless Suffering Evokes Our Humanity -- |t Seven. Pointless Suffering Inspires Art -- |t Conclusion. The Way of Suffering Humanly -- |t A Sad Postlude -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Notes -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition-which leads to a question that has proved just as inescapable throughout the centuries: Why? Why do we suffer? Why do people die young? Is there any point to our pain, physical or emotional? Do horrors like hurricanes have meaning? In Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering, Scott Samuelson tackles that hardest question of all. To do so, he travels through the history of philosophy and religion, but he also attends closely to the real world we live in. While always taking the question of suffering seriously, Samuelson is just as likely to draw lessons from Bugs Bunny as from Confucius, from his time teaching philosophy to prisoners as from Hannah Arendt's attempts to come to terms with the Holocaust. He guides us through the arguments people have offered to answer this fundamental question, explores the many ways that we have tried to minimize or eliminate suffering, and examines people's attempts to find ways to live with pointless suffering. Ultimately, Samuelson shows, to be fully human means to acknowledge a mysterious paradox: we must simultaneously accept suffering and oppose it. And understanding that is itself a step towards acceptance. Wholly accessible, and thoroughly thought-provoking, Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering is a masterpiece of philosophy, returning the field to its roots-helping us see new ways to understand, explain, and live in our world, fully alive to both its light and its darkness. | ||
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