 | Joseph J. Kockelmans - Philosophy - 1980 - 401 pages
...of Sisyphus with the sentence 11 n'ya qu'un probleme philosophique vraiment s&ieux: c'est le suicide [There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide]." The discovery of this "moral subjectivism" ("Non sumus In ullius potestate, cum mors in nostra potestate... | |
 | Ben-Ami Scharfstein Professor of Philosophy Tel-Aviv University - Philosophy - 1980 - 502 pages
...stubborn temptation to commit suicide." The statement with which he begins The Myth of Sisyphus, that 'there is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide,' expresses a genuine and personal problem, which he intellectualizes and, perhaps by philosophizing... | |
 | Joseph J. Kockelmans - Philosophy - 1980 - 401 pages
...Sisyphus with the sentence "II n'ya qu'un probleme philosophique vraiment serieux: c'est le suicide [There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide]." The discovery of this "moral subjectivism" ("Non sumus in ullius potestate, cum mors in nostra potestate... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - Art - 1984 - 252 pages
...unanswerable. In short, our lives are absurd. But does the absurdity of our lives justify self-inflicted death? "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide," Camus declares in the opening lines of his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus." Reason of the traditional... | |
 | Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Religion - 1988 - 385 pages
..."Le style, c'est rhomme." Lutte, toujours! The Myth of Sisyphus opens with the question of suicide ("There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide") and ends with a call to contest the absurdity of things. Refusing the leap of faith that Kierkegaard,... | |
 | Michael C. Kearl - Social Science - 1989 - 542 pages
...p. 422) What comes to mind is a statement by existential philosopher Albert Camus, who claimed that there "is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question 'of philosophy"... | |
 | Odo Marquard - Culture - 1991 - 150 pages
...it—for example, in the form of the "absurd," as Camus puts it in The Myth of Sisyphus, where he says "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy,"*... | |
 | George Howe Colt - Psychology - 1992 - 580 pages
...denied full religious rites. The discussion of suicide as an ethical issue has been increasingly muted. "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide," began Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus, published in 1940. "Judging whether life is or is not worth living... | |
 | Alan Warren Friedman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...maintains that philosophy concerns the practice of dying, a notion he took to its logical conclusion: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."35... | |
 | Alessandra Lemma - Psychology - 1996 - 242 pages
...suicide is over-represented in people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Theoretical approaches There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether or not life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question... | |
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. 
