Albert Camus

<aside> 💡 Quotes

• “There is only really serious phiolosphical 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.” </aside>

<aside> ✏ Notes:

• lived from 1913-1960 - died in a car crash

• did not ultimately want to call self an existentialist but certainly explored very existentialist themes

• writer of novels, plays, short stories, essays

• 1957: nobel prize for literature

• staunch anti-communist - this led to a break with sartre

• married twice though did not believe in “marriage”

• second wife sufffered depression very much a result of his infidelity and it is believe she attempted suicide

• his notion of the absurd starts with ‘the problem of suicide’ and his answer is essentially presented in The Myth of Sisyphus

• is life worth living

• for most yes we go on living but often unreflectively versus those who commit sucide answer believe themselves to be certain about life and its meaning

• absurdity, the first truth.: there is no meaning to anything so human endeavor is pointless - so now what

• live with the absurd </aside>