3.13.2018

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Comment: a helpful resource. Image source

Despite his opposition to the label, Camus addressed one of the fundamental questions of existentialism: the problem of suicide. He wrote, "There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that." Camus viewed the question of suicide as arising naturally as a solution to the absurdity of life. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus seeks to identify the kinds of life that could be worth living despite their inherent meaninglessness.
His view is clear: Nice image but represents a worldview he denied:

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