If it doesn't kill you | Susie Orbach, Anders Sandberg, and Havl Carel
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Importance of Suffering
I think we want to pick away a little bit this issue of suffering being an essential part of life. I don't know whether it's a reflection of our times that in recent years has been quite a lot of resurgence of interest in stoicism. But there is this question of whether or not it would be better if it wasn't. And also I guess here then you have to also think about what kinds of suffering are worth dealing with. The point of therapy is for that feeling to be transformed and live inside of them as the hurt or whatever the fundamental feelings are and for them to then contain it. So do you think it's kind of good that there's some suffering in the world
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