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    Absurdism must logically accept life as the one necessary... — Carmelics
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    Absurdism must logically accept life as the one necessary good

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    • 1.Absurdist reasoning's final conclusion is the repudiation of suicide and the acceptance of the desperate encounter between human inquiry and the silence of the universe
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    • 2.To conclude otherwise would negate absurdism's very premise, namely the existence of the questioner
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    • 1.Camus himself distinguishes between logical suicide and physical suicide, treating them as structurally parallel responses to absurdity.
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    • 2.If philosophical self-negation (embracing nihilism or transcendence) is a genuine absurdist option, then physical self-negation cannot be ruled out by the same logical structure.
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    • 3.Therefore, absurdism's rejection of suicide is an existential wager, not a logical necessity derived from the absurd premise itself.
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    • 1.Benatar's asymmetry argument establishes that the absence of pain is good even when there is no subject to benefit, grounding anti-natalism without requiring a subject's negation.
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    • 2.If value can obtain independently of a experiencing subject, then life's continuation is not a logical precondition for the goods absurdism identifies.
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    • 3.Absurdism's insistence that the questioner must persist conflates the phenomenological structure of revolt with a normative claim about life's necessary value.
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    Notable Defenders

    Silenusancient
    Albert CamuscontemporaryThe Rebel
    Albert CamuscontemporaryThe Myth of Sisyphus (MS), pp. 18, 21
    Albert Camuscontemporary
    Albert CamuscontemporaryLCE, 339-341
    Albert CamuscontemporaryLottman, 201–31; Aronson 2004, 25–28
    Albert CamuscontemporaryThe Myth of Sisyphus; The Rebel
    Father PanelouxcontemporaryThe Plague (fictional character)
    Francis JeansoncontemporaryJeanson 1947
    Jean-Paul SartrecontemporaryAronson 2004, 228-9
    John FoleycontemporaryFoley 2008, 93
    Pascal Piacontemporary
    Pascal PiacontemporaryLottman, 201–31
    Paul BermancontemporaryBerman 2003, 27–33
    Roland BarthescontemporaryAronson 2004, 228-9
    TarroucontemporaryThe Plague (fictional character)
    Albert Camusmodernthe essays discussed in the passage
    Albert CamusmodernThe Rebel; Caligula; The Just Assassins
    Albert CamusmodernThe Rebel (L'Homme revolté), p. 22; also The Myth of Sisyphus
    Albert CamusmodernThe Rebel
    Albert CamusmodernThe Myth of Sisyphus; The Stranger
    Albert CamusmodernThe Rebel
    Friedrich Nietzschemodern'God is dead'
    René Descartesmodernmethodical doubt

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    Absurdism's insistence that the questioner must persist conflates the phenomenol...Absurdist reasoning's final conclusion is the repudiation of suicide and the acc...

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    At the beginning of The Rebel, Camus picks up where he left off in The Myth of Sisyphus. Writing as a philosopher again, he returns to the terrain of argument by explaining what absurdist reasoning entails. Its “final conclusion” is “the repudiation of suicide and the acceptance of the desperate encounter between human inquiry and the silence of the universe” (R, 6). Since to conclude otherwise would negate its very premise, namely the existence of the questioner, absurdism must logically accept
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