But more interestingly, Camus added: “Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences – all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn’t feel it. But at that moment I am well aware that that higher liberty, that freedom to be, which alone can serve as basis for a truth, does not exist. Death is there as the only reality. After death the chips are down.”
It follows that the individual does not actually choose between epicurean hedonism, mystical meaning, or stoic indifference as one’s guiding star in life. Fate and predestination and therefore death and the afterlife serve as the terminus for our individual will.
Adam A. Azim 