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This 3 page paper discusses the biblical book of Job and Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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This paper briefly compares the two books. Discussion Perhaps no one can truly understand the experience of being in a concentration camp unless he or she has been locked up
in one. The horrors that survivors witnessed, the daily struggle for survival-they all seem unreal, like it couldnt possibly have happened. Its not possible, the human spirit says, for one
person to treat another with such casual and deliberate brutality. And yet the evidence is there: the Nazis went about exterminating those who opposed them with ghastly efficiency. But it
was in the concentration camps that Frankl found the basic material of life itself: the idea that "life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones."1
But that life has to be fought for, and herein lies a paradox. Frankl notes that prisoners died easily in the camps; those who survived were those who were willing
to do whatever it took to stay alive: those who, "after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared
to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves."2 But those who did lie, steal, betray friends, perhaps
even murder to save themselves then were left with another truth: the survivors who came back from the camps were not the best men: "We who have come back, by
the aid of many lucky chances or miracles ... we know: the best of us did not return."3 This then is the paradox. Under such inhuman and brutal conditions, the
only way many had to survive was to do whatever it took to stay alive. But they couldnt celebrate their survival because they realized that in adopting this philosophy, they
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