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

Camus turns to nature's role with regards to absurdity. It is as though there is a way in which nature is indifferent to man. It doesn't make a difference to a tree if we die. Nature seems to be neither nice nor mean. It seems almost inhuman. When man sees himself and others as inhuman- this is something unknown to us. It contributes to the feeling of absurdity. Death itself is not what frightens us. It is the sense f time passing by and leaving us in this questionable position.

The next argument presented is how man focuses on living just for the sake of the body, rather than developing our thinking. Instead of questioning what the meaning of life is, man takes the easy way out, and claims to live for his body, which is finite, instead of the mind. Then he moves on to talk about how there must be logical thought behind man committing suicide. Camus claims that it is easy to be logical, but has a problem with the idea of being logical to the point of death. This bothers him, but he says the only way to be sure that is the case, is to follow all the way through on what he suggests.

Camus goes on to say that science describes life, but gives it no real meaning, while religion gives it meaning, but it is not entirely accurate. Our faith becomes our knowledge of living, and that is still unclear and confusing. The absurd is the one thing that actually links man to the world, because as Camus claims, both are responsible for it.

Freedom exists on an individual level. A man is only free if he has no controller. Therefore, according to Camus if God is omnipotent and we are without free will, then he creates evil. This is where it gets interesting. If we are truly free, then God is not omnipresent and thus is not really God. This question of freedom limits man to whatever purpose he lives his life for. Man may take up whatever needs to be done to execute his main goal, but at the same time is controlled by it. So man faced with absurdity is not really free. In creating a plan for life, he has locked himself into his own particular "prison." With death the whole subject of freedom goes out the door.

It seems Camus uses other philosophers to bring certain points across. Kierkegaard vi

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