That's interesting ..
How can he say that suffering drives the wheel? Pleasure/Suffering just a biological reward/punishment system that tells us what to do. Pursue rewards and avoid things that cause suffering .. Just like training a dog with snacks for reward and a gas-horn that scares it with a sound if it screws up.
Since most people are motivated by pursuing rewards rather than avoiding suffering, you would think that pursuing rewards in some way was the driving force.
Anyways, in the little education I've had in philosophy, it seemed quite obvious to me that while many old philosophers had many interesting thoughts on reality, you shouldn't take them too seriously. I think most of them were very much into their "subjective realities", not to mention the time when they were living. In many topics, also ones that debate topics like morale or social politics, I think they have a lack of understanding of the human nature which is not surprising since it's only been pieced together in modern times.
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