Non-Useless Suffering
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F19%3A10401140" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/19:10401140 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=dXs.OFVhjr" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=dXs.OFVhjr</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.34291/BV2019/02/Mensch" target="_blank" >10.34291/BV2019/02/Mensch</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Non-Useless Suffering
Original language description
What does it mean to suffer? How are we to understand the sufferings we undergo? Etymologically, to suffer signifies to undergo and endure. Is there a sense, a purpose to our sufferings or does the very passivity, which they etymologically imply, robs them of all inherent meaning? In this paper, I shall argue against this Levinasian interpretation. My claim will be that suffering, exhibits a meaning beyond meaning, one embodied in the unique singularity of our flesh. This uniqueness is, in fact, an interruption. It signifies the suspension of all systems of exchange, all attempts to render good for good and evil for evil. It is in terms of such suspension that suffering - particularly as found in selfless sacrifice - finds its }}use((. This }}use(( involves the possibility of forgiveness.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Bogoslovni vestnik [online]
ISSN
1581-2987
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
79
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
SI - SLOVENIA
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
315-322
UT code for WoS article
000499682900004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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