would someone contemplating the purely philosophical aspect of meaninglessness of life commit suicide? Emotional, social systemic cause, insanity--all seems to be plausible, but a suicide only triggered by the meaninglessness of life, in the purely philosophical sense doesn't seem plausible. Have people committed suicide for purely this reason? — Kushal
Emotional, social systemic cause, insanity--all seems to be plausible, but a suicide only triggered by the meaninglessness of life, in the purely philosophical sense doesn't seem plausible. Have people committed suicide for purely this reason? — Kushal
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The error in Camus, and the reason I would not count him as an existentialist, is that he insists that meaning is to be found. — Banno
Camus said many of us, me included, perform all kinds of philosophic suicides to reconcile this absurdity. — Rank Amateur
That's the essence of the question I have posed, we don't find suicides to be committed solely due to realizing that everything is meaningless. So Camus' argument seems erroneous to me, there is no logical suicide--but his use of applying only logic to death and suicide helps him make the bigger point of existentialists providing false hopes and helps us understand the nature of an absurd life.I could be way off, but isn't most suicide more emotional than logical? Isn't one argument against a regularly armed populace the fact that people will kill themselves due to easy access when they are in a bad place emotionally? Tomorrow, suicide might not seem like such a great idea.
That's the essence of the question I have posed, we don't find suicides to be committed solely due to realizing that everything is meaningless. — Kushal
But then, suicide itself creates meaning - why? — Banno
Emotional, social systemic cause, insanity--all seems to be plausible, but a suicide only triggered by the meaninglessness of life, in the purely philosophical sense doesn't seem plausible — Kushal
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