In a certain sense the philosopher
is a healer.
Many philosophers make as a
doctor a diagnosis and suggest a treatment. So did Buddha, and so did
Kierkegaard.
But what they were treating
were the human problems, therefore problems common to all mankind.
The sickness unto death, which
for instance Kierkegaard´s script The
Sickness Unto Death has as subject, is the despair.
The despair is here presented
as a sickness in the self, and the condition for healing is to become yourself.
In the same way in Buddhist
philosophy, where the sickness is the suffering common to all mankind, and the
treatment is meditation, and the recovery is enlightenment.
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