The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

Camus Believes -

serious philosophical problem is suicide - judging whether life is worth living

• everything comes second to Camus

Profound Indifference

People can NOT live w/o this belief that their life is worth living

Camus believes - meaning of life is ____ _____

most urgent - the thing people live & die for

Camus wants to know the relationship between _____ & _______

absurd & Suicide

Feeling of Absurdity

losing entire world view, losing meaning, feeling utterly lost

First sign of absurdity -

meaning of daily activities lose meaning - break in the chain

Stage set breaks (like Truman show) - question …

the question of “why” arises - EVERYTHING changes

• weariness - new world opens up

Now might (2)

1. might sink back-in & go back to change

2. theres an awakening - can’t/won’t go back

Now Faced w/ Absurd

1. Recover SOMEHOW

2. Suicide

The Strangeness

EVERYTHING becomes strange

• see a stranger in a loved ones face

• see a stranger when looking in the mirror

Absurd (contradiction)

not JUST the world or JUST the men - BOTH

Contradiction

world w/o meaning then US - created by Earth (stardust) now seeking meaning

Camus believes we -

NEED to revolt

• life is overcoming

The Human Struggle

great struggle of what we can’t understand & basically find our own way of creating meaning & living through it

Concluded

Suicide is NOT a solution - NEVER an option

Absurd = ________

necessary

• here to remake ourselves - THIS is the way of the absurd man