How should we understand the meaning of suffering

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1. In Buddhism, how should we understand the meaning of suffering, for surely most people are not in constant pain? Why did the Buddha consider death, birth, old-age, sickness as suffering? What is the Buddhist solution to suffering?

2. Is life's meaning subjective, objective or both according to Viktor Frankl? Why?

3. Explain Frankl's theory of "happiness." How is this similar and different from the view of Camus?

4. The relationship between reflection and life according to Marcel. In what sense is reflection an essential part of life, and in what sense it is not

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