In European culture, there are three kinds of interpretations of suffering and evil: mythic, religious and rational-philosophical. The main criticism against the rational interpretation of suffering and evil in the philosophical tradition is that it either explained away the problem of suffering and evil, or rationalized them as positive ideas, which is far away from the reality of experience. This paper aims to answer the following questions: How is the philosophical discussion of suffering and evil possible? Whether this kind of discussion belongs to the field of philosophy or not? The fist part of it offers a descriptive and critical representation of these interepretations in the development of European cultur. The second one gives a critical reexamination on the possibility of a philosophical discussion of the ”negative”.