BY GORDON BROWN
Is life even worth living?

That was a very real issue for men and women across the globe in the first half of the 20th century. Many had already suffered through the atrocities of the supposed “war-to-end-all-wars” only to find the stage set for fresh horrors. The wallowing misery of The Great Depression. The firebombing of Dresden. The gas chambers of Auschwitz. The unimaginable devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Faced with an utterly capricious and indifferent universe, men and women across the world questioned if there was any point to it all. Was there anything that made existence worthwhile?

For iconoclastic French-Algerian thinker Albert Camus, the answer was a resounding yes.

The Millennial’s Guide to Philosophy: Camus | Primer

What every man needs to know about living life on his own terms. Is life even worth living? That was a very real issue for men and women across the globe in the first half of the 20 th century. Many had already suffered through the atrocities of the supposed “war-to-end-all-wars” only to find the stage set for fresh horrors.