Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Philosophy p. 5
October 29,1996
Born on November 7, 1913 in Mandoui, Algeria, Albert Camus earned a
worldwide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for
literature in 1957. Though his writings, and in some measure against his will,
he became the leading moral voice of his generation during the 1950's. Camus
died at the height of his fame, in an automobile accident near Sens, France on
January 4, 1960.
Camus's deepest philosophical interests were in Western philosophy,
among them Socrates, Pascal, Spinoza, and Nietsche. His interest in philosophy
was almost exclusively moral in character. Camus came to the conclusion that
none of the speculative systems of the past could provide and positive guidance
for human life or any guarantee of the validity of human value. Camus also
concluded that suicide is the only serious philosophical problem. He asks
whether it makes any sense to go on living once the meaninglessness of human
life......
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