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Philosophical concept

Suffering

Suffering is an experience of pain, loss, or trial whose causes, meaning, and possible responses the texts investigate.

Works
325
Passages
11,386
Thinkers
51
Traditions
17

Understand uses of the concept

Suffering is an experience of pain, loss, or trial whose causes, meaning, and possible responses the texts investigate.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 11,386 passages across 325 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: souffr, affliction, suffering, tribulation, passion, pati

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  9. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 829 passages
  10. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 20 passages
  11. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 151 passages
  13. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 974 passages
  14. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 58 passages
  15. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  16. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  17. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  18. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  19. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  20. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  23. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  24. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  25. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  26. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  27. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  28. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  29. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  30. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages