Ancient Greeks and Suffering
Ancient Greeks and Suffering

Summary/Abstract: Suffering is one of the most important and permanent phenomena in culture. Professor Józef Sieroń has written the book entitled The Problem of Suffering in the Literature and Philosophy of Ancient Greece: Selected Issues. The book does a very good job at showing how the understanding of suffering changed in the eponymous culture. The author avoids, however, to draw clear conclusions on this subject. Suffering beginning from rationalizing suffering as a component of the world, or will of the gods, by attempting to rationally remove it by encouraging one to become numb to it through the way of reason, and then by the irrational.

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