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Posted: 06 Aug 2021

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Sartre’s friend Albert Camus (1913-60) was the writer who coined the description “absurd” or “the absurd” for the situation in which human beings demand that their lives should have significance in an indifferent universe which is iself totally without meaning or purpose. It is a demand, Camus insisted, that can never be met. But in that case what is the point of living at all, once the sheer meaninglessness of human life has been fully understood and assimilate? He famously opened his essay ‘Thy Myth of Sisyphus’ (1942) with the words: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy”. . . . In an open appeal to pride -- “there is nothing equal to the spectacle of human pride” -- he calls for life of stoic refusal to accommodate oneself to cosmic circumstances. . . . Page 217
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