Pain (second part) - by Massimo Sebastiani - The word of the week

2024-02-17T06:11:16.416Z

Highlights: Pain (second part) - by Massimo Sebastiani - The word of the week. Whether physical or mental, the West has always tried to ennoble pain in order to get over it. Is wisdom achieved through suffering? Or was Epicurus right and pain is just an alteration and a signal from the body to overcome and eliminate? Aeschylus and Doestoevsky together with Ligabue and Peter Cameron help us understand. (HANDLE)

Whether physical or mental, the West has always tried to ennoble pain in order to get over it. Is wisdom achieved through suffering? Or was Epicurus right and pain is just an alteration and a signal from the body to overcome and eliminate? Aeschylus and Doestoevsky together with Ligabue and Peter Cameron help us understand. (HANDLE)