Albert Camus - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Oct 27, 2011 · Since existence itself has no meaning, we must learn to bear an irresolvable emptiness. This paradoxical situation, then, between our impulse to ask ultimate questions and the impossibility of achieving any adequate answer, is what Camus calls the absurd. Camus’s philosophy of the absurd explores the consequences arising from this basic paradox.
Existentialism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jan 6, 2023 · To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed” (1947 [1948, 129]). The point of authenticity, then, is not to be concerned with who I am —because, at bottom, I …
Existentialist Aesthetics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jun 26, 2009 · The absurd, then, denominates both the most fundamental state of the world and the absurdity of human attempts at overcoming this basic fact. However, whilst Camus’ ‘absurd’ names the essentially tragic state of humanity, it is counterbalanced by his awe towards the indifferent majesty of Nature.
Suicide - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 18, 2004 · Albert Camus illustrated this absurdity in his philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus. For Camus, Sisyphus heroically does not try to escape his absurd task, but instead perseveres and in so doing resists the lure of suicide.
Notes to Albert Camus - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
In his brief essay, “Remarque sur la Révolte” (Camus 1965, 1682–97), published in 1945, Camus mentioned Being and Nothingness twice while first laying out his idea of revolt. His Notebooks also refer to his reading it in November, 1943 (91).
Jean-Paul Sartre - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Mar 26, 2022 · He was born in 1905 and died in 1980, spanning most of the twentieth century and the trajectory that the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm refers to as the “age of extremes”, a period that was also well-described in the middle of that century in Albert Camus’ The Rebel, notwithstanding that the reception of Camus’ book in Les Temps ...
Suicide - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 18, 2004 · Albert Camus illustrated this absurdity in his philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus. For Camus, Sisyphus heroically does not try to escape his absurd task of endlessly and futilely pushing a rock up a mountain, but instead perseveres and in …
Hope (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Mar 8, 2017 · Camus’ understanding of the absurd is best captured in the image of Sisyphus, who exemplifies life’s absurdity in his “futile and hopeless labor” (Camus 1955: 119). The assumption that life is absurd goes hand in hand with the denial of religious hope for salvation.
The Meaning of Life - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 15, 2007 · There is also debate about how the concept of a meaningless life relates to the ideas of a life that is absurd (Nagel 1970, 1986, 214–23; Feinberg 1980; Belliotti 2019), futile (Trisel 2002), and not worth living (Landau 2017, 12–15; Matheson 2017).
Søren Kierkegaard - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 22, 2023 · [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by John Lippitt and C. Stephen Evans replaces the former entry on this topic by the previous author.] Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was an astonishingly prolific writer whose work—almost all of which was written in the 1840s—is difficult to categorize, spanning philosophy, theology, religious and devotional …