On the importance of diferenciate physical pain and moral suffering
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v23i3.6598Keywords:
Pain, suffering, knowledge, research, science, philosophyAbstract
We pose a key distinction in the research on the experience of the pain, which is so common and at the same time so unpleasant for humans. The studies that focus on problems with a powerful emotional component face the handicap of the diversity of emotional experience and the difficulty in isolating the feeling (subjective experience) of emotion (idiosyncratic response with an evolutionary origin). Physical pain and moral suffering are good examples of such problems. This article discusses the advantages that a basic distinction between moral suffering and physical pain would bring to the knowledge of the latter as a human experience,inasmuch as the general concept of suffer is not only inadequate for a socially useful research but also is misleading. A better-understanding of this issue seems relevant since the physical pain is a neurological process that affects all of us throughout our lives.Downloads
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