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Why do philosophers avoid taking about suicide, with the exception of the overtired ethics of medical euthanasia?
Camus' claims in the essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide"

It seems nonsensical to talk about the wonders of life, its sorrows and tackle its teleogy without questioning a very real alternative.

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18027700

PUSH THE ROCK

>> No.18027710

>>18027681
Schopenhauer, Jean Améry, David hume

>> No.18027720

im reading that book right now. its taking me forever to get through for such a tiny book. its such a bore

>> No.18027924

>>18027681
Camus is wrong

>> No.18027937

>>18027924
how?

>> No.18027938

"And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling."

>> No.18027945

>>18027937
Simply live, it only becomes an issue with Camus' gross misunderstanding of despair and anguish withing kierkeggards works (which are flawwed in their own regard) he took something that kierkeggard showed as a result of sin and romanticised it so much to suggest it is just a fact of living life in a modern society. Camus didn't consider himself a philosopher and the only other "philosophers" who do care about this pointless question are reddit anti-natalists

>> No.18027950

>>18027924
and a french pseud at that

>> No.18027955

>>18027950
a pretty good author though, yet still satre outwrites him

>> No.18027961

>>18027720
If you're bored then you're not paying enough attention.

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>>18027700
o-ok

>> No.18027974

>>18027681
philosophers are pathetic faggots who are afraid being cancelled by priests

>> No.18027998

>>18027974
ill cancel you, you little shit

>> No.18028019

>>18027700
One must imagine Camus an extortionist.

>> No.18028066

Stoics talk about suicide a lot.

>> No.18028081

>>18028066
stoics arent philosophers

>> No.18028086

>>18028081
>american education

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>>18027938
Based.

>> No.18028128

>>18028086
You’re literally an american who thinks ancient self help and a dude’s diary is philosophy. Wtf are you talking about. Projecting hard as shit faggot

>> No.18028139

>>18028128
>he's not an american but he's still that dumb

>> No.18028156

>>18028128
Epictetus was a philosopher.

>> No.18028180

>>18028066
I'm a phil grad student and I can confirm this is BASED

>> No.18028230

>>18028180
Do you focus on the Stoics?

>> No.18028259

>>18027924
>camus is wrong
>>18027945
>proceeds to agree with camus

>> No.18028879

>>18027720
the writing style is so weird, must because he was french right?

>> No.18029306

>>18027945
What's flawed about Kierkegaard's works?

>> No.18029641

>>18028128
>ancient self help
Nah its a philosophical take on life. Aurelius was also a philosophical man, so while he may not have explicitly written philosophy, his words carry the same weight a philosopher's would

>> No.18030630

>>18027681
camus is a midwit hack, plus he's french

>> No.18030641

>>18028081
Epictetus is definitely a philosopher.

>> No.18030662

>>18027681
Read Schopenhauers essays boy

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>>18030630
incorrect he was based