French existentialist
Stanford Camus article
-Human beings cannot escape the question of living "What is the meaning of existence"
-The endless search for the meaning of life and the existence itself is the absurd
Myth of Sisyphus, Philosophy of the Absurd:
Sisyphus rolls a rock up and down a hill for the rest of his life but still manages to live life by embracing the absurd
-Camus argues this situation is not unlike the existence of humans that find themselves in patterns in the monotony of life
-The paradox of life: We keep looking for the meaning of life (rolling the ball up/why we continue to desire to live) only to find out that we can never know the meaning (watching the ball roll down).
-Camus implies that if one is content with the monotony of life and its absurdity then they can live
Other philosophies:
Camus uses the absurd to present ideas surrounding suicide and death, to only name a couple
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