Category: Albert Camus

Do humans have free will? Or are they just objects the greater force plays with? The subject is addressed in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and The Guest by Albert Camus. These stories portray how humans are being control by greater forces creating no free will. In Oedipus Rex…

According to Albert Camus, the Absurd is mans impossible search for meaning in life arising from our desire to understand the world and our existence but never being able to. Camus expands upon this idea by stating that the only response to the absurdity of life is Revolt and not suicide. In this essay, I…

In Existentialism, there are many figureheads like Jean-Paul Sarte, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and many others with different key doctrines. Freidrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus are important to the Existentialist Movement with Nietzsche being a pioneer for the movement and Camus writing many books and novels with Existentialist ideas. With Camus, it was absurd and…

I have not prepared for life or even college in the most traditional manner: I didnt always have a place to call home, I didnt have happily married parents, I didnt have a town that I could grow up in; rather I lived in and out of different homes, I was raised by a single…

Viktor Frankyl, a holocaust survivor recounts his time in Aushwitz in his book, Mans Search for Meaning. He found that while himself and others suffered through one of the greatest tribulations in history, they were still able to find meaning among the suffering and thus were building resilience against ungodly misery. Frankyl believed that by…

Camus entire philosophy is based on the idea of the absurd life. He argued that life is essentially meaningless. He started his argument on the absurdity of life with the statement There is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. For others, a life without meaning is a life not worth living,…

Introduction The renowned French philosopher Albert Camus wrote the provocative piece “The Myth of Sisyphus” in 1942. This ground-breaking study explores the complex philosophical issues of life’s purpose and absurdity. The Greek tale of Sisyphus, who was doomed to carry a rock uphill for eternity to watch it roll back down, serves as the basis…

Philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, claiming the death of God, forced the largest announcement upon the Western culture. The world that was built by faith, all of a sudden became irrelevant of all its value. Years of being reliant on a divine being to explain our existence, our society was advancing and discovering new information about the…

Albert Camus (19131960) was a French-Algerian philosopher, journalist and novelist. Perhaps not as much of a philosopher (as he denied himself to be) as a novelist with a strong philosophical bent, he is most famous for his work on the Myth of Sisyphus and his novels of ideas, such as The Stranger and The Plague.…

It is claimed by some critics that Camus can, at times, be reductive in his analyses and sweeping in his judgements. Nevertheless, there is an optimistic, humanist tone to his works which engages the reader and incites further philosophical enquiry, on the readers behalf, so that they might explore the nature of their existence and…