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Thomas Metzinger: Is The Self An Illusion? Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood & Epistemic Agent Model

Mind-Body Solution

CHAPTER

The Importance of Accepting Suffering

I think it would be a major achievement to have an abstract theory of suffering and then ask the question how can this be alleviated. There's more suffering in the world than joy. Almost all people can agree on this. And I think a practical ethics can be developed from this that one say, admit to each other that we're suffering beings and focus on the alleviation of suffering. The important point is that this also applies to those people who are not yet born to future persons they are suffering matters to.

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