Danielle Sands/ Anatasia Scrutton/ Tom Stern Listen to the recording here The ‘most depressing lesson’ of suffering, Slavoj Žižek writes, is that ‘there is nothing to be learned from it’. Is Žižek’s bleak view convincing, or is there evidence to suggest that suffering can educate or even improve us? If so, do some types of physical or mental suffering have more value than […]

Danielle Sands/ Anatasia Scrutton/ Tom Stern Listen to the recording here The ‘most depressing lesson’ of suffering, Slavoj Žižek writes, is that ‘there is nothing to be learned from it’. Is Žižek’s bleak view convincing, or is there evidence to suggest that suffering can educate or even improve us? If so, do some types of physical or mental suffering have more value than […]

Danielle Sands/ Anatasia Scrutton/ Tom Stern Listen to the recording here The ‘most depressing lesson’ of suffering, Slavoj&nbsp;Žižek writes, is that ‘there is nothing to be learned from it’.&nbsp;Is&nbsp;Žižek’s bleak view convincing, or is there evidence to suggest that suffering can educate or even improve us? If so, do some types of physical or mental suffering have more value than […]

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From the vaults: Can We Learn from Suffering?

From the vaults: Can We Learn from Suffering?