For him or her, religion is to take a leap, to avoid the problem of the absurd by denying an unrecognizable part of the world: as I can not understand my existence, I leave it in the hands of something I know I will never understand. He then proposes a new existence: that of the absurd man: the one who waits for the end but despises him, the one who has a science without illusions, unlike the ‘men of the eternal’. In his essay, Camus proposes that our condition is that of Sisyphus, our awareness of the world and its chaotic future is one of the reasons why this is absurd. The main idea of Camus is that the world and existence are absurd.Īccording to Camus, we can relate our existence to that of Sisyphus who, having made the Gods angry, is condemned to push a huge stone uphill on a mountain only to fall back and have to start again from below for all the eternity, with no possibility of change. The absurdity consists in opposing the fundamental human need to give meaning to life and the response ‘unreasonable silence’ of the Universe. ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’ is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus in which Camus presents his philosophy of the absurd.
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