There is characterized the connection of the individual and worldwide suffering from the positions of temporal philosophy. By the example of some doctrines of European and Russian thinkers there are revealed the main principles in solving the issue of suffering: active practical work, sympathy and responsibility

There is characterized the suffering as a universal attribute of animate nature and human life, covered the theoretical bases and practical consequences of the modern ecological ethics.

There is regarded the human body from the point of view of philosophic anthropology in connection with suffering issue. Corporeality appears as the modus of body in a particular existent situation and in case of its discrepancy with life project of an individual causes different forms of suffering.