The Meaning Of Human’s Sense For Pain: C S Lewis’ Views On The Problem Of Pain

There is no consistent philosophical view concerning the nature of pain. Just about every conceivable position concerning the nature of pain is held by some leading thinker. Many philosophers concerned some broad issues of pain, i.e. what causes it, how to look on and avoid it. Their views are few systematically concerning the nature of pain, unfortunately, especially the metaphysical questions of what is actually the pain of human, why pain is consequentially caused by something of human, and whether the pain only leads to a bad feeling and result or not.The aim of this thesis is trying to ponder over the nature of human’s pain. Here the author regards two focus questions of what determines the pain of human and how those things make the pain possible to human as the beginning of the discussion on the basis of critical review of some conceivable positions of previous philosophers in history. Because C S Lewis deals with the problem of pain in a systemic way, his core arguments may help the author understanding the nature of human’s pain. In order to avoid the influence caused by his position of Christianity, the author accomplishes the whole thinking process about the nature of human’s pain in a dialogue way based on C S Lewis’ relative argument text.What is the nature of human’s pain? How does the nature work leading human suffer the bad feeling endlessly? A possible answer for the two questions may be the inherent blindness of human due to his native limitation. The attributes of human’s pain could be unified when we argue the insight of that pain is a well-timed reflection of the limitation of human as his going into any action during the process of life. Then it could come very naturally of that the positive meaning of pain warning the limitation of human. The limitation of human may be the origin of his pain and it may also be the causation how human does suffer the bad feeling possibly. Human has the right of freedom of choice. While he chooses for something in a certain situation, the motivation may be his self-will and the criterion of judgment may be his existing sense. Within the self-will, freedom of choice and existing sense of human, only the last one, existing sense could have a direct relation with the limitation of human. How does the human do suffer pain possibly? It may be a result of self-binding due to the blindness of someone’s judgment while he does choose freely by means of his existing sense and based on his self-will. The possibility of human’s pain may depend on whether he is keeping an eye on his limitation or not. To avoiding the pain of human, without a doubt, is removing the bad feeling rather than the pain of itself. It is always necessary that human must consciously adopts his self-will for surrounding world. Then he could find a balance point from his self-will, freedom of choice, and existing sense acquired both by self-will and freedom of choice to reduce the negative impact due to his inherent and unavoidable limitation as much as possible. Of course he could accurately cognize how and what he is, and why he is as he is, by which he might find that real and natural himself.