Absurd

Albert Camus ; Discovery of the Absurd

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This was done for a 3 part philosophy ISU. Albert Camus was a philosopher and author who is often placed under the philosophical umbrella of existentialism. He is a firm believer and advocate of absurdism which is the belief that any human attempt to find some sort of meaning in life completely fails because no such meaning exists. In The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus expressed his idea of discovering the absurd. He talks about the meaningless machine-like tasks that people do every day as they veer closer and closer to the end (death). He also talks about the concequences of discovering the absurd which is basically the time when you stop your routine-like actions and think "why". All quotes from Camus are taken directly out of his book, "The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays"