The concept of suffering in Soren Kierkegaard's existentialist thought

By Boruah Papori

Introduction By nature all human beings are to wonder and curious about their own existence, ultimate destiny and sense of their lives and also capable of find out the reality of inevitable suffering and death. Human beings are the only creatures who do not accept their condition and have realized the ultimate truth of life that is death. Moreover, in the experience of suffering they recognize their own limitations and wonder about what has caused it. As a result, the question of the existence about God is raised. It is to be stated that all sentient beings have to face the disaster of death. We are born means one day we have to die. Neither human beings nor non- human beings can deny this ultimate truth of life. But, human beings try to understand the mystery of death and always try to search their limitations of not getting the answer. The inevitable experiences of suffering and evil encouraged people to find out the reasonable explanation and philosophers, theologians and thinkers have tried to solve and understand the problem of human suffering. They have tried to find out the answer of the questions, such as, 'why do people need to suffer?'. Or, 'what is the ultimate cause of human suffering?'. The problem of suffering is one of the most difficult and complex human problems. There is no one who would not have been troubled by the question of suffering at some point of his or her life. If we look at the problem of suffering then we will find that suffering becomes more problematic from the believers perspective. Peter Kreeft says that suffering not in itself is a problem but it appears as a problem when God comes into play. However, the truth is that the problem of suffering pertains both to the believer,

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 7223800232
• ISBN13: 9787223800235
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Vedantrustyyt
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"