Albert Camus famously suggested that suicide is the central question of philosophy. We discussed this in the post Is Life Worth Living? There is no God, Camus believed, so there is no meaning to life. We are to live, according to Camus, acknowledging this fact, but finding a reason to live nonetheless. Is life worth living? Atheists […]
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Is Life Worth Living?
The Mood of the Age Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote that suicide is the only serious philosophical problem. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that. Camus, Myth of Sisyphus. Camus held that it was absurd to seek meaning in life when […]
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