Abstract

BAQUEDANO JER, Sandra. The channeling of pain and the stagnation of suffering in Schopenhauer and de Quincey. discus.filos [online]. 2011, vol.12, n.18, pp.107-123. ISSN 0124-6127.

In this paper, I shall explore the channeling of pain and the blockage of suffering in the thoughts of Schopenhauer and De Quincey respectively. In the case of the English writer, I shall show that his view is opposite in ethical terms to the existential outcome both of the better conscience and of the denial of the will to live, since while the pleasures of the opium flow after dreams that are transformed into terrible sufferings, the pain, in Schopenhauer, is sublimated until it is transformed in the of his ethics.

Keywords : Better conscience; denial of the will to live; pain; opium; suffering.

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