Beschreibung
Social suffering commands increasing public
attention in the wake of several historical processes that
have changed the ways victims are perceived. In making
suffering eloquent by rendering it in conceptual form,
philosophy runs the risk of muting suffering, thereby
neutralizing its ability to mobilize responses. In the
experience of suffering philosophy finds a limit it must
recognize as its own. Yet only by fulfilling its duty
towards suffering – only by having the abolition of
suffering as its ultimate goal – can philosophical thinking
withstand a tacit complicity with injustice.
José A. Zamora. Senior Researcher at the
Institute of Philosophy (Spanish Higher Council for
Scientific Research – CSIC), Madrid-Spain.
Reyes Mate. Emeritus Research Professor at the Institute of
Philosophy (Spanish Higher Council for Scientific
Research – CSIC), Madrid-Spain.
