PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Albert Camus, Fideism

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: David Stamos

Document Summary

Many people commit philosophical suicide (finding no answer to life, so ending it). Many people commit suicide because they believe that their life is not worth the trouble. The absence of any profound reason for living drives people to committing suicide. Some people feel deprived and alien in the world, which is why they don"t feel like continuing the exile of life. Man is living a mechanical life repeating the same routine everyday several times a week. We all see others experiencing death but we are unable to experience it. Other creatures apart from humans do not face the problems in life. They do not feel alien in the world or do not suffer the exile living. They live in the moment and do what they"re supposed to, unlike humans who are always thinking about life. Once we become philosophically awake, everything is absurd.