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Interpretations of Suffering in Phenomenology of Life and Today’s Life-World

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Philosophers make difference between pain and suffering. Pain can be characterized as phenomenon of internal experience of sentient beings, mainly based on psycho-physical experience. Suffering from the phenomenologican point of view is reflected painful feeling with meaning constituted in intentional act. Suffering manifest Mensch-Schmerz (F. Nietzsche), painful creative affects of the life process. Attitude to suffering shows human positioning in the Universe. It have been described at the philosophy of Stoics, B. Pascal, A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche, M. Scheler, V. Frankl, S. Weil, Z. Maurina, A.-T. Tymieniecka and others. Phenomenology of life sees birth, death and suffering as a drama of life. Tymieniecka interprets pain, birth and death as predicament in the process of life. Personal suffering culminates in enduring the suffering of Other. Contemporary life-world transforms types of suffering. Grows the amount of people inflicted sufferings and partially diminishes the amount of sufferings caused by nature. Contemporary people depreciate metaphysics of life and value of suffering, and changed ethical stories to the mythology of technologized body-life.