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"Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well."
It is through Sartre that the idea of the freedom to make this statement was thoroughly described. Sartre unfortunately did not aptly apply the freedom, seeking to reconcile existentialism with the criticism of it as a bourgeois philosophy. Camus rightly acknowledges that there is no need for reconciliation. Existentialism is the study of the most basic factor of the human experience - human Being and being in the world. There is nothing bourgeois in asking oneself if life is really worth living. Applying that freedom that Sartre "discovers" to the question of suicide is necessary for one of sufficient consciousness to avoid suicide - the so-called existential mood has many pseudonyms, none with positive connotations (angst, anguish, despair, dread, etc.). If one is free to judge of the world, as Oedipus does, that "all is well," then one is conscious enough to be free.
Really what the result of all this consideration amounts to is the answer to the question "What reason is there for living?" which is simply "Because there is never a reason not to."
It is through Sartre that the idea of the freedom to make this statement was thoroughly described. Sartre unfortunately did not aptly apply the freedom, seeking to reconcile existentialism with the criticism of it as a bourgeois philosophy. Camus rightly acknowledges that there is no need for reconciliation. Existentialism is the study of the most basic factor of the human experience - human Being and being in the world. There is nothing bourgeois in asking oneself if life is really worth living. Applying that freedom that Sartre "discovers" to the question of suicide is necessary for one of sufficient consciousness to avoid suicide - the so-called existential mood has many pseudonyms, none with positive connotations (angst, anguish, despair, dread, etc.). If one is free to judge of the world, as Oedipus does, that "all is well," then one is conscious enough to be free.
Really what the result of all this consideration amounts to is the answer to the question "What reason is there for living?" which is simply "Because there is never a reason not to."