Pensare il dolore
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Elena Mancini [1]
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[1] Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche
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- Localización: Giornale di Metafisica: revista bimestrale di filosofia, ISSN 0017-0372, Vol. 39, Nº. 2, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Intuizione ed emotività / coord. por Angelo Cicatello, Luigi Filieri), págs. 552-567
- Idioma: italiano
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Resumen
This article proposes a philosophical way of thinking about the meaning of pain and its different semantic meanings: suffering, physical pain, spiritual grief, illness. The aim of this reflection attempt to highlight how grief is perceived, endured and to understand how it is expressed by language, being conscious of the inevitable discontinuity between language and life experiences. Therefore we are making referring to the more recent philosophical reflections, specifically the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein which allows us to define and reach a better comprehension and definition of the logical impossibility to understand the grief using a “private language”. The use of ordinary language, everyday language, doesn’t express the real meaning of grief, but rather replaces it with a linguistic act that allows us to communicate it to others, which it is also the only way we have to live in touch with our selves. This transposition into common words, which makes possible the comprehension of grief, neither legitimizes or justifies it, but rather, because of its spontaneity and immediacy, we should be reminds us of the ethic responsibility of the primary importance of being able to recognize that grief is unique and intolerable, each time as it were the first.
