CAMUS' VIEW

Camus' View

Camus' View

In Camus' view there are three likely philosophical answers to this predicament. Two of these he accuses as evasions; the other he places ahead as a correct solution. Our first alternative is blunt and simple: personal suicide. If we conclude that a life without some absolutely crucial reason or significance is not worth dwelling, we can easily select to murder ourselves. Camus declines this alternative as cowardly. In his periods it is a repudiation or renunciation of life, not a factual revolt (Thrody, 1961).

Choice two is the devout answer of positing a transcendent world of solace ...