What is the main cause of human suffering, according to Siddhartha Gautama?

What will be an ideal response?


Ignorance and selfish craving.

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Heraclitus was a Presocratic philosopher

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We can go backwards or we can go forward. And I don't know about you, but I want to move forward in this country" (Barack Obama, The New York Times, July 1, 2010) commits the fallacy of A) begging the question B) begging the question against C) complex question D) false alternatives E) accident

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For Augustine, the job of philosophy is not to discover truth but to clarify faith

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