{"id":9127,"date":"2020-04-14T23:28:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:21:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:21:59","slug":"from-the-vaults-can-we-learn-from-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/from-the-vaults-can-we-learn-from-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"From the vaults: Can We Learn from Suffering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Danielle Sands\/ Anatasia Scrutton\/ Tom Stern<!--more--><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Listen to the recording <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20161024_1830_canWeLearnFromSuffering.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;most depressing lesson&#8217; of suffering, Slavoj\u00a0\u017di\u017eek writes, is that &#8216;there is nothing to be learned from it&#8217;.\u00a0Is\u00a0\u017di\u017eek&#8217;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 others? What is it that we learn?\u00a0Does suggesting that suffering has meaning or value validate or demean the experience of suffering?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers<br \/>\nDanielle Sands<br \/>\nLecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture,\u00a0Royal Holloway, University of London,\u00a0and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<br \/>\nAnastasia Scrutton<br \/>\nAssociate Professor in Philosophy and Religion, University of Leeds<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sterntom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Stern<\/a><br \/>\nSenior Lecturer in Philosophy, University College London<\/p>\n<p>Chair<br \/>\nPeter Dennis<br \/>\nFellow,\u00a0Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method,\u00a0LSE\u00a0&amp; Fellow, Forum for Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recorded on 24\u00a0October\u00a02016 at the LSE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Sands\/ Anatasia Scrutton\/ Tom Stern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":10345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109,165],"tags":[],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-from-the-vaults"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/05\/6-MI-MH.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-2nd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16162,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions\/16162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}