Finding Something to Live and Die For, The Philosophy of Viktor Frankl
What keeps a human being going The purest answer to this question is perhaps to be found in the worst of places. Austrian psychiatrist, philosopher, and author Viktor Frankl spent three years in four different concentration camps. He was at the mercy of sadistic SS guards and the socalled Capos: prisoners with special privileges who willingly collaborated with the Nazis and were even more ruthless than their masters. The camp inmates were constantly exposed to famine, sickness, slave labor, and the possibility of punishment or execution. There was no freedom. The prisoners moved around like a defenseless flock of sheep, kicked and beaten by their shepherds, stripped of all human dignity. Whats left to live for in such a horrible place like a concentration camp When theyve taken all your liberties and possessions, and when death at short notice is almost inevitable, is there any reason not to give up on life Viktor Frankl concluded that theres always a reason to live even in the worst c
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