Nietszche, no contest. He would be adept in dealing with suffering. lolIf Freud and Nietzsche fought each other in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, who would win?
Are you a nihilist, then?
Still the same one we've been discussing:
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Exactly. With modern medicine, he might have lived a longer, happier life, at the Sorbonne, or Cambridge or Princeton. He would still be brilliant, but would apply his mind to different subjects - the ones that he thought need addressing now. Well, religiosity might still be a target if he lived in the US, but social mores have changed considerably - in part because of his very influential writing.OK
Well his views on suffering appear to be somewhat twisted (my call) and in need of assistance
But as mentioned different times, different views