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

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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 for the essay. Sisyphus represents...

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Introduction Nihilism, as the latin name for it describes, literally means ānothingā. It was a developing philosophy primarily during the time of Nietzsche when he had proclaimed his famous quote that āGod is deadā. Nietzsche had simply believed that as people evolved, God was no longer needed as a means of meaning and order in the lives of people. Free...
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In Existentialism, there are many figureheads like Jean-Paul Sarte, SĆøren 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 with Nietzsche, it was the...

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According to Albert Camus, the Absurd is manās 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 argue in support of Camusā...

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Viktor Frankyl, a holocaust survivor recounts his time in Aushwitz in his book, āManās Search for Meaningā. 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 changing oneās attitude of suffering,...

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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 world we live in. In...

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Camusā 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 āThere is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicideā. For others, a life without meaning is a life not worth living, and this statement by Camus...

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The āThe Myth of Sisyphusā and Nietzcheās concept of āthe camel, lion, and childā discuss the meaning of life. Their topics debate whether life is meaningful and if it is, how does an individual find it. Both authors share their belief of existentialism. While Nietzsche explores the possibility of life having meaning, Camus proposes a new idea of accepting and...

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The article I decided to read and master for this week is written by Richard Taylor titled āThe Meaning of Lifeā on pages 560-569. I think everybody at some point in life will ask the question, what the meaning of life is or what is my purpose. Taylor has a different approach to answering that question, he wants us to...

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