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Suicide negates the “consciousness desire for unity” part of the absurd equation. With no mind, the absurd is resolved by rushing to death, which is our end when no meaning or future-after-death is presented, when only abstract leaps can be made to conclude rational meaning/universal cohesion. In this way, we are “condemned to death”(pg55) therefore to live with this “truth” is to revolt against death.

When a consciousness highlights the absurd and wishes not to leap away from the anguish the tension creates, one must be ever aware of this unreasonable world and one’s own desire for unity or reason. This causes the problems of day to day to strengthen in the mind, as there is no alternate place to go after life, this is it. “Abstract evidence”(I think=assumptions) shifts towards a sight of human creation.

The core: Camus argues that the opposite of suicide is revolt against the meaningless world. If one accepts it is meaningless, suicide is the only logical conclusion. But if one revolts, tries to find personal meaning and continuously confronts that meaning, living is constituted. The only reasonable freedom is “that which a human heart can experience and live.” “The purest of joys is feeling.”

Camus seems to try and do away with the biggest avenues of philosophy by arguing against them. Eventually he argues that Reason is not what many people claim thought itself, but simply an “instrument of thought”. Camus seems to dislike existentialists the most as they claim the universe is absurd, but simultaneously claim rules and objective fact. Camus dislikes the hypocrisy. Camus really isn’t easy to read.