The Absurd

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The Absurd

-Humans have a tendency to seek meaning

-Can't find that meaning

-This creates tension

Camus

-Kirkegaard first wrote about the absurd, but Camus' "Myth of Sysphus" brought it into light.

-Confrontation with the meaningless of life is what creates the absurd.

--Acts of elussion, beliefs help us elude the meaningless of life.

--Freedom only exists insofar as absurd allows

--Hope: it does not help

---Hope and despair are not opposites

---Hope is believing more than what the absurd allows

--Personal Meaning

---People create their own

---must exist within the context of the absurd

Camus, the only question of philosophical importance is suicide.

Does meaninglessness take away from the take our appreciation of the world.