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After an unsuccessful lecture, she would sometimes ask for Euthanasia herself. But the death-rate was not permitted to exceed the birth-rate, and the Machine had hitherto refused it to her.
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster
Human existence, Camus claims, is absurd. This absurdity arises out of our attempts to make sense of a senseless world. Camus tells us ‘the absurd is born of the confrontation between [this] human need and the unreasonable silence of the world’.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
Properly understood, self-awareness leads to the ‘authenticity’ of a life created out of nothing, in the face of dread, by reference only to one’s own deliberate purposes.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
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