An Analysis Of Camus’S Interpretation Of The
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”
–a quotation from Life Is Absurd by Albert Camus.
Suicide is a social phenomenon, as there is no right or wrong answer to it, apart from that it is a way to voluntarily end one’s life. This raises the issues of the meaning of life and its existence.
Camus believed that people who commit suicide are cowards and are full of weaknesses, as they fail to see the meaning in life. He thought that the only reason that people want to end their life was because of the fact that they put everything that is to do with the purpose in life into someone, or something, else other than them-selves. For example, some parents, when they lose their only child, feel suicidal as their soul purpose in life had vanished. Camus also believed that those who commit suicide are, in some ways, insane. Bottom line, it is those who pursue and compre-hend the meaning of life that lives.
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