SUICIDE IN ALBERT CAMUS' EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHY

📄 Project Abstract

Albert Camus' ideology of suicide emanates from human experience of absurdity and metaphysical nihilism. From the frustration of the oppressive social order to the ravaging physical and of psychological effects of indifference of nature to mankind and fallible individual actions, the choice of taking one's own life becomes clear to be impressed upon us by experience of absurdity or meaninglessness of existence and of human endeavour. This work seeks to clarify if there are justifications for this unpleasant human act. Is suicide real solution to the identified human problems or do they multiply them? Is suicide an end in itself or a means to an end? Is there a justification to this end? Our author, Albert Camus toes the existentialists' line in his approach to the perennial problem of justifications of suicide. Briefly that since existence precedes essence; there are no sufficient reasons to necessitate the act of suicide. By way of critical analysis, It was discovered that the reasons...