Albert Camus's Essay: The Myth of Sisyphus

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In the essay The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus attempts to give answers to some tough questions. He wants to know if life is worth living or how we can make it worth living, as well as whether or not it is possible to live with certainty. To him, the absurd man realizes that life is absurd after his expectations are repeatedly contradicted and he realizes the world is an unreasonable place that cannot be explained. These unreasonable expectations of certainty ultimately cause many absurd men to think that life is not worth living when they are faced with what they feel is a hopeless situation. Camus offers an alternative to the problem the absurd man faces and it is not suicide or “Philosophical suicide”. Other philosophers commit philosophical suicide by suggesting that there is enough evidence, whatever it maybe, that one should survive on hope alone or make some leap. But Camus thinks that if a person is honest and truthful to themselves that they know they are nothing more than “a stranger” in this world. So how does one live a life worth living when faced with absurdity?
A good example of what might happen to someone going through an existential crisis described by Camus happens in the short story The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre. It is a story of three men that are sentenced to be executed and their time spent leading up to it. The main character Pablo at first loses basically all desire to live because he knows that his death is imminent. I am going to attempt to try and describe what I believe Albert Camus might think of the characters from the short story The Wall. I will from the point of view of Camus and explain what Pablo and the other characters might have done differently to use their freedom to the best of their ab...

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...w us the best way to use our freedom and build a life worth living, someday.
In conclusion, I feel like Camus has the most optimistic outlook out of all the philosophers we have talked about, including Sartre, as well as the most realistic when it comes to using your freedom and making a life worth living. If the characters in The Wall were to embrace some of Camus's ideas Juan and Tom might have been able to calm down and make the most of their situation. If we want to make a life worth living we must accept the absurdity and the sooner the better. That is the only way that we can become content with our lives . It is bad deal for humans, but if we are forced to live in a meaningless world we ought to make the best out of it by maximizing our experiences because from what we can tell living is better than dying because it is something impossible to experience.

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