Can We Teach Philosophically About Unspeakable Human Suffering?

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Azada-Palacios, Rowena
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2025
• الموضوعات: critical phenomenology; decolonial; suffering; teaching philosophy; War in Gaza; Arts and Humanities; Philosophy
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/109; https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2025.2465222
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper is a reflective response to Tena Thau’s suggestion–in her 2024 piece ‘Moral Philosophy as War Propaganda’–that philosophy has little to teach about the war in Gaza (and, by extension, similar cases of widespread, horrific human suffering). I first reconstruct one of the arguments that Tha...