Camus Interpretation
Camus begins with debating whether life is worth living or not. He determines that that exact question is the fundamental question in philosophy. He goes on to question what is worth dying for, and brings up the example of Galileo and how he did not die for the ontological argument. Camus claims that he did the right thing in that, that particular truth did not merit the sacrifice. Yet he claims to have seen many people commit suicide for lesser reasons. Camus claims that suicide is never an issue that is dealt with socially. He believes that a man who commits suicide has been feeling the longing to do so for a substantial amount of time. That it was a planned out intricate event. As soon as man starts to think, there is a potential for this fatal feeling to be released. There are many reasons for suicide, yet it is usually the least expected that sets the person off. Reading in a newspaper it might say, that indeed this person jumped because they were very depressed. However, they were dealing with their issues, and not until you treated them apathetically, did they commit suicide. At that point, the persons mind opted for death. Camus feels that suicide states a confession of that person's inability to understand and denounc
By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death- and I refuse suicide. I found the following statement interesting. There is a reference to transcendentalism. But finding things to be true cannot be enough either, because the question of what is true still remains. " Sartre claimed that the world is mans, yet Camus says that for all man's knowledge of the world, it can only go so far. Camus turns to nature's role with regards to absurdity. Freedom exists on an individual level. "Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. It creates a void in the robotic as Camus says, "mechanical" day to day living. Then he moves on to talk about how there must be logical thought behind man committing suicide. It doesn't make a difference to a tree if we die. If we are truly free, then God is not omnipresent and thus is not really God. The next argument presented is how man focuses on living just for the sake of the body, rather than developing our thinking. This question of freedom limits man to whatever purpose he lives his life for.
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