![]() ![]() They try to conjure meaning out of meaninglessness, which Camus sees as distinctly irrational. ![]() But each of them has a fatal flaw-they were too afraid to commit to the absurdity of life, and instead restored meaning to the world through a leap of faith (usually to God). All of these, says Camus, went some way to outlining the absurdity of life. Camus wants to know if it’s possible to live in full awareness of the fact that life is meaningless.Ĭamus examines the work of philosophers like Soren Kierkegaard, Lev Chestov, Karl Jaspers and Edmund Husserl. If life is meaningless, which is a proposition Camus certainly agrees with, is it logical to commit suicide-dutiful, even? Camus outlines how people turn to religion and hold on to the hope of a better life that never comes in order to suppress the absurd. ![]() People commit suicide when life is meaningless, he says, and sometimes to defend the meaning that they do perceive (for instance, someone dying for a political cause). Camus believes that confronting the absurd takes precedence over all other philosophical problems, because it is intimately linked with the act of suicide. In fact, Camus defines the absurd as the confrontation between man’s desire for logic, meaning and order, and the world’s inability to satisfy this desire. ![]() The absurd is often mischaracterized as the simple idea that life is meaningless. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus aims to draw out his definition of absurdism and, later in the book, consider what strategies are available to people in living with the absurd. ![]()
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