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The following responses to Hamlet’s big question each win a random book.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/117/To ... The_Answer

Philosophy Now wrote:The following responses to Hamlet’s big question each win a random book.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/117/To ... The_Answer

Camus tried to suggest that suicide is the most important question in philosophy, but as I've stated repeatedly to deaf ears and blind eyes, it's not. The real question lies in whether to perpetuate that problem, generation after generation. If Sisyphus finds pushing the boulder up the hill in repetitive futility to be less than satisfactory to himself, how can he possibly come to the conclusion that it might be a good or enjoyable thing for some spawn of his to fulfill? How so also The Buddha, who only sought an end to the cycle of birth and rebirth, whom then decides to have a son, and perpetuate it again, while he seeks to remove himself?

If there's wisdom in what they did, I'd prefer to remain deaf and blind to their answer.

The "To be or not be" question has already been given the most realistic response by Shakespeare himself. Leave it to a whole bunch of idiot philosophers to separate the question from the response and apply some convoluted metaphysics to one of the most fundamental questions regarding life itself.

of course the wisest man in ancient Greece chose not to be...

then again, he didn't exactly burn out either

-Imp