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Man's search for meaning (Camp experience (: The salvation of man is…
Man's search for meaning
Camp experience
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The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone
GAZ ANALOGY
If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber com-pletely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little.
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Meaning of suffering
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
Responsiibility
t it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
Meaning of life
Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is ques- tioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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