El suicidio como un acto liberador estoico en la obra El mito de Sísifo: un dialogo entre Camus y Séneca

Abstract

ccording to Seneca's philosophy, this investigation interprets suicide in "The Myth of Sisyphus" of Albert Camus as a liberating stoic act. The first chapter details Seneca's ideas about life and death as a way to understand his position about suicide and the circumstances in which we can justify it as a liberating stoic act. The second chapter analyses Camus's concepts of life and death to determine why he refuses suicide in some moments, and he accepts it at other times. The third chapter compares the philosophy of Camus and Seneca to set out how it's possible to understand suicide as a liberating stoic act in "The Myth of Sisyphus". Indeed It's Kirilov's character who allows reading his suicide as rational, stoic, and liberating. This decision is understood when men are in terminal illness, slavery, or any other circumstance that affects the wise man. The methodology pursued in this work was a hermeneutic reading of "The Myth of Sisyphus" of Camus and "The Moral Epistles to Lucilius" of Séneca.