![]() ![]() 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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