Far from being a study in existential disaffection, as I had so badly misremembered, The Plague is about courage, about engagement, about paltriness and generosity, about small heroism and large cowardice, and about all kinds of profoundly humanist problems, such as love and goodness, happiness and mutual connection.
Typical issues relate to physical symptoms and problems such as pain, functional impairments and states of chronic fatigue, family burden such as the uncertainty about individual roles and responsibilities, existential concerns such as isolation or meaning in one's life as well as social, financial and occupational problems [ 11].
The task of the doctor was often to face existential problems as much as medical deficiencies and it was not self-evident that the problems could be solved within health care.
Given these conflicting views, it is quite easy to see the problem posed by existential philosophers such as the atheist Jean-Paul Sartre, or the agnostic Albert Camus.
For instance, the challenge posed by negative existential sentences such as 'Pegasus does not exist' persists when translated as 'Pegasus exists NAND Pegasus exists'.
Of course, it is notoriously difficult to prove a negative existential claim, such as the credal veritist claim that there are no other epistemic vices beyond inaccuracy.
It is in light of this idea that key existential notions such as facticity, transcendence (project), alienation, and authenticity must be understood.
Views on suicide have been influenced by broad existential themes such as religion, honor, and the meaning of life.
What strength remained was often focused on existential priorities such as one's employment or essential everyday tasks; others were pushed back.
