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Unpleasantness and Suffering: Desires upon Desires| title | Unpleasantness and Suffering: Desires upon Desires |
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| start_date | 2026/02/20 |
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| schedule | 15h15 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle des Actes |
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| summary | Virtually all of us feel pain, undergo unpleasant experiences, and suffer. The last decade has seen a resurgence of interesting in the last of these: not pain, not unpleasantness, but suffering, conceived as a distinct phenomenon. Although a leading voice in the consensus that suffering and unpleasntness are distinct phenomena, Michael Brady's accounts of each exhibit striking parallels, each invoking negative desires: directed at one's own sensations, feelings, experiences, or emotions, in his account of unpleasantness; or at unpleasantness itself, in his account of suffering. I argue against both. I argue, in particular, that the two accounts share key shortcomings. And I tentatively suggest that reflecting on what has gone wrong can tell us something about what suffering really is. |
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| responsibles | de Vignemont |
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| submitted | published | | 2026/02/13 11:03 UTC |
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