Suffering and Moral Responsibility
Ranked #69 in Utilitarianism
In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an affliction of feeling, he addresses difficulties associated with its identification and measurement. He then turns to an examination of the duty to relieve suffering: its content, its weight relative to other moral considerations, and the role it should play in our lives.
Among the claims defended in the book are that suffering needs to be distinguished from both physical pain and the frustration of desire, that... more
Among the claims defended in the book are that suffering needs to be distinguished from both physical pain and the frustration of desire, that... more
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