PHIL 1750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aesop, Sparknotes
12 Oct 2016
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There is only one serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. The meaning of life is the most urgent of all questions. Suicide is confessing that life is not worthwhile. The subject of his essay is the relationship between the absurd and and suicide, the exact degree to which suicide is the solution to the absurd. The answer to suicide isn"t as easy as yes or no, some people live their whole lives wanting to kill themselves but never doing so. All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. One day one begins to in that weariness and awakens, to ask why? you can either recover from it or commit suicide. The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. He has an appetite for the absolute and for unity. The impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.
