Position
The Absurd
Life has no discoverable cosmic meaning; lucid revolt in the face of the absurd is the honest response.
Classification
- Position level
- specific
- Domains
- Ethics
Overview
The absurd is not despair but a clear-eyed confrontation with the gap between the human need for meaning and the world's silence. Rather than escape into suicide or a leap of faith, one lives fully and consciously within that unresolved tension.
Position on
Held by traditions
- Absurdism
Question scope: The Meaning of Life
References
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)