It's always a treat to listen to your videos. It is a window on AN world wide. // It struck that the criticism of Benetar's work, as outlined in your video, would lead back to traditional Buddhism's understanding of the place of suffering in the cosmos. In both instances suffering is seen as pervasive whereas pleasure is seen as transient. Buddhism goes one step further, I think, in that Buddhism argues that even moments of pleasure are also moments of suffering due to impermanence and the awareness, often subconscious, that the pleasure will pass (usually very quickly). This awareness of impermanence is a type of suffering that, I think, rises to the level of a metaphysical insight; I mean that the instability of existence is part of the nature of the material world. // Thanks for all the time you put into these presentations; I have found them very helpful.
