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Camus identifies the meaning of life as a philosophy's most urgent problem. Suicide is an internal confession of doubt hollows out the habit of living. Absurd is defined as the divorce between human longing and the world's irrational silence and one must confront this tension with lucidity rather than eluding it through false escape of hope or death.
— Jan 31, 2026 04:54PM
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I get the point, he's trying to say that we should mantain the state of lucid revolt instead of trying to fix it with hope (religion) or despair (suicide).
— Feb 04, 2026 04:07PM
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The absurd feeling emerges when the stage-sets collapse and disrupting the mechanical routine of daily life with "Why?" This awakening triggers either a return to habit or a movement toward recovery or suicide.
Camus describes this as a state of denseness, where the world becomes alien and irreducible, and human behavior appears as a meaningless pantomime to us.
— Feb 02, 2026 05:14PM
Camus describes this as a state of denseness, where the world becomes alien and irreducible, and human behavior appears as a meaningless pantomime to us.
