The solution to the problem of the dwarfing of human being does not pass through the elimination of suffering, but rather through training in what Nietzsche calls “great suffering”. Sickness is a paradigmatic case of suffering that can serve as a stimulus to life. Thus, health cannot consist merely in the elimination of sickness. “Great health” is the concept used by Nietzsche to describe the state reached by someone who is capable of enduring “great suffering”: the “overman”.La solución al problema del empequeñecimiento del ser humano no pasa por la eliminación del sufrimiento, sino más bien por el adiestramiento en lo que Nietzsche denomina “gran sufrimiento”. La enfermedad es un caso paradigmático de sufrimiento que puede servir de estím...