Happiness can be found, and life can be lived passionately, full of experiences, but still have no purpose.įirst, it is necessary to give some context on the myth of Sisyphus. Life is too much for you, you do not understand it,” and giving up is not the answer. He believes that “killing yourself amounts to confessing. He concludes his thoughts with saying “at that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning toward his rock, in that slight pivoting he contemplates that series of unrelated actions which become his fate, created by him, combined under his memory’s eye and soon sealed by his death.” Although this may seem miserable at first, Camus clarifies throughout his writings that it is possible to find happiness in a meaningless, habitual life. He considers the absurdity of life, how to deal with it, and explains his reasoning throughout the story of Sisyphus. Albert Camus studied the philosophy of the absurd and decided that, to him, the most important philosophical question was “why not commit suicide?” In “The Myth of Sisyphus: An Absurd reasoning” (1942), he discusses his thoughts on the answer to this question.
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