Herce Fernández, Rubén Lumbreras Sancho, Sara 2025-09-26T12:29:58Z 2025-09-26T12:29:58Z 2024-04-09 2300-7648 https:doi.org10.12775SetF.2024.004 http://hdl.handle.net/11531/104821 Artículos en revistas The topic of pain and suffering is complex and requires a holistic vision. This article begins by clarifying concepts to understand pain as a biological, psychological, and social phenomenon that has an evolutionary history whose maximum expression arises in humans. Established this common ground, it explores altruism and animal cooperation as incipient phenomena of care for the other, though contextual. Then it points out that the difference with humans is that they perceive caring for the weak, innocent, and marginalized as a moral duty and a path of personal flourishing. Finally, in the face of human weakness and from Christian theology, God shows with deeds a path of care for the weak by making himself weak, suffering and remaining innocent. en-GB Revista: Scientia et Fides, Periodo: 1, Volumen: online, Número: 1, Página inicial: 73, Página final: 88 Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) The perception of pain and suffering of the weak, the innocent and the marginalized from evolution and from Christian theology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess pain, suffering, evolution, ethics, anthropology, theology