In other words, he was asking what is the point of life? Why should we live?Ĭamus asked this question in The Myth of Sisyphus at a time when organised religion was in steep decline. All the rest-whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories-comes afterwards. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. He opened his philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus with this statement: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. The idea of suicide was central to Camus’ philosophy of life.
It is significant that suicide appears so early in the book. In Part One of The Plague, a character attempts suicide.
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