PHIL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Albert Camus, Slack Technologies, Existentialism
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Possible reasons for life"s absurdity: we are a tiny speck in the universe, our lives don"t seem to matter outside of earth, the shortness of our life (our mortality) in respect to the universe. Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions: camus is a nihilist about the meaning of life. He holds that life is meaningless: 1. The absurd is born out of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world - the myth of sisyphus. The myth of sisyphus: sisyphus is the absurd hero , why his fate is absurd. [his] whole being is exerted towards accomplishing nothing : why sisyphus"s fate is tragic. He is conscious of his fate: [he] knows the whole extent of his wretched condition; it is what he thinks of during his descent : why sisyphus is a hero:
