![]() ![]() When a person becomes irreversibly convinced of this futility, and totally accepts it as a way of life, he becomes the true “Absurd man”. The very fact that we seek meaning in a meaningless world is what absurdity is. We expect the universe to have some transcendental meaning, but the universe is painfully silent and indifferent. That awakening would be your introduction to what Camus terms as “The Absurd”. ![]() ![]() Suddenly it stops making any sense why you were pursuing what you were pursuing. Imagine: you wake up one day, and suddenly see the futility of it all. All the rest – whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories – comes afterward.” The Myth of Sisyphusįor most of us, the driving force behind our life is our passions – the passion to fulfil our purpose in the world, or the passion to find that purpose. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. ![]()
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