Christopher Janaway - Institut für Philosophie

Attitudes to Suffering:
Parfit & Nietzsche
Thursday, April 14, 2016
16:15-18:00
Hauptgebäude 120/1.OG West
Universität Bern
Christopher Janaway
Professor of Philosophy
University of Southampton
“Suffering that can be given meaning through growth is something we have reason to
want. Suffering that remains brute and uninterpreted is something we have reason not to
want. But suffering as such has no invariant value across all contexts.“
“Attitudes to Suffering: Nietzsche and Parfit” Inquiry, 2015
Self and World in Schopenhauer's Philosophy , OUP 1989
Arthur Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: short philosophical essays, v.1 & 2,
2014/2015, OUP 2014
“Affect and cognition in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche” In Thinking about the Emotions: a
Philosophical History, OUP 2014
Gastvortragsinitiative:
Abteilung Logik und theoretische Philosophie
Institut für Philosophie
Universität Bern
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