Suffering is an experience that arrives unmediated from ‘nowhere’ yet from ‘within’, ineluctably subjective, sui generis, at best an experience vaguely and inadequately comparable. It is a phenomenon that takes a purely phenomenological analysis beyond its own limit. Yet, if we may struggle describing the phenomenon of suffering, can we at least establish the ontological possibility of suffering experience? In this presentation Christopher Hill answers the question affirmatively by drawing on the respective thought of AN Whitehead the ‘process metaphysician’ and Michel Henry the ‘process phenomenologist’ (Mullarky, 2006:48pp). Though disparate thinkers sharing little but an apparent consent to the processual nature of reality, Hill argues that both offer in their respective yet complimentary ways a fundamental ontological basis for the experience of suffering. 

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