Pain
September 28th, 2006, search relatedRelated posts :: The Pain in Spain :: Pain :: Pain :: The Reification of Life as “War and pain.”
In article , GEVANS613 at aol.com writes
>how does this modern misunderstanding
>arise? I suggest here that it is because people confuse the apparently obvious
>phenomenological EXISTENCE of the abstraction ‘pain,’ with ‘that which
>ACTUALLY EXISTS
There is no confusion. People are concerned with the everyday reality of
pain - what you call its ‘obvious phenomenological existence’. They are
not interested in your ontological theorising which is useless in the
presence of everyday reality.
–
Philip Baker
