![]() Nagel disagrees with part of Camus’ explanation about the absurd, he argues that even if nothing we do matters in the distant future, nothing in the distant future matters now. Camus says the absurd is born from the human need and the silence or mysteries of the world that will never be solved. “I’m filled with a desire for clarity and meaning within a world that offers neither”. For Camus, the absurd is the realisation that the world isn’t rational, he describes it as a man who is face to face with the irrational he wants to be happy and have a reason to live. ![]() Only when we stop thinking about our own mortality and purpose, can we really start to enjoy the present.Ĭamus is correct in his assumption that the world is absurd, subsequently, people should live their lives without concern for a higher meaning, which is proven through Nagel’s argument of the absurd and Nietzsche’s argument posed about absurdity. In this work he explains how individuals use ignorance as protection from the idea that our life needs to have purpose. The essay I read was The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. In the essay I read it talks about just that. ![]() ![]() For as long as humans have lived on the earth, they have looked for a purpose, for meaning to what we do. ![]()
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