🏛️ Politics 2d ago · Tom Whyman

Kathleen Stock, born-again conservative

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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide,” Albert Camus once wrote. For philosophers like Camus, death was viewed as a private affair; we must all decide, for ourselves, whether our existence has meaning – whether life is worth living. For Martin Heidegger, death was the absolute temporal limit of our own experiences, not anybody else’s. To be, or not to be? – that famous question is a private one, offered in a soliloquy. No one else on stage is meant to hear it

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