Pain partially constitutes the body’s epistemological and moral status.

Evidence

Thus pain does not simply constitute irrefutable evidence of the corporeal ground of experience, it is also a way of constituting the epistemological status of “the body.” — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 447

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The compact claim that pain is a mode of constituting the body’s epistemological status, not merely physical evidence of it, is dense and paradigm-shifting.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 447
• XREF: connects to: Intentional affectivity directed at pain differs from pure body-consciousness; Illness makes the lived body appear as an object, a given substance.; Negativity and pain constitute genuinely human experience — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 75 (+1 more)