Philosophie des Leidens

‘No human being lives without suffering, suffering is everywhere,’ says Euripides. And yet no one could say what suffering is exactly and what happens when we suffer. Therefore, it is worthwhile to pursue the ‘inner life’ of suffering and uncover its basic structure or basic dynamics, its being, its essence, its sense or nonsense and its value or lack of value. In doing so, we can show that suffering conceals much more than one would expect, for it contains the whole human being, his/her world position, his/her fundamental fate of existence and thus the ‘meaning of the world’. And finally: Whoever understands suffering, really understands it deeply down to its last reasons and has the chance to deal with it in the right way, i.e. in a way that promotes life.