PHILOS 1E03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Readings #8: Albert Camus
5 Feb 2017
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Readings 8 albert camus absurdity and suicide . The problem with suicide is that people die because they judge that life is not worth living: therefore, not just suicide, but the meaning of life itself is one of the most pressing questions. In society, suicide is only dealt as a social phenomenon: camus is concerned with suicide in the philosophical range: the relationship between individual thought and suicide. When we begin to think, we begin to weaken ourselves camus believes society does not recognize this issue. Through the many cases of suicided, we must conclude that it is rarely committed through reflection of oneself: rather, a perspective on the outside world that triggers ones mindset. Suicide amounts to confessing: the idea of confessing life is too much for you or you do not understand it, life is not worth the trouble . Living in itself is natural: we compute our everyday gestures based on habit.
