![]() Camus thus says that there is a difference between the “fact” of the absurdity of existence and the recognition and realization of this absurdity. Our failure to glimpse or grasp this meaninglessness does not negate the meaninglessness in which we are placed. Human existence, for Camus, is meaningless. Yet, this inability to become aware of the meaninglessness of existence does not mean that life is not meaningless. ![]() Meaninglessness often hides itself and remains unnoticed it does not show itself to everyone. ![]() Suicide is a “philosophical problem” because it constantly presents itself to us as a response to the human condition and as a justified attempt at escaping the meaninglessness of existence.īut, according to Camus, not everyone notices and suffers from this meaninglessness. On the contrary, we are concerned here, at the outset, with the relationship between individual thought and suicide”. “Suicide has never been dealt with except as a social phenomenon. Suicide, for Camus, is a “serious philosophical problem” because it arises and announces itself only when what is questioned, doubted, and disputed is the meaning of life in its privacy, particularity, and individuality. All the rest- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories-comes afterwards” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. The endeavor to “resolve the problem of suicide” brings the whole essay face to face with what precedes and leads to the attempt at killing oneself, with what is constantly entangled with every endeavor to render oneself absent, that is, the absurd. Camus begins The Myth of Sisyphus with the question of suicide, but it is the thought of the absurdity of existence that holds together Camus’s whole essay and confirms its force.
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