The Paradoxes Of Camus Philosophy

Good Day Everyone! Did you ever wonder "what is the meaning of existence?" Camus argues that human beings cannot escape asking that question. However, he denies that there is an answer to this question, and rejects every scientific, teleological, metaphysical or human - created end that would provide an adequate answer. Thus, while accepting that human beings inevitably seek to understand life's purposes , Camus takes the skeptical position that the natural world, the universe, and the human enterprise remain silent  about any such purpose. But first, let me introduce to you who is Albert Camus is? Albert Camus was a journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist and although he more than once denied it, a philosopher. Camus philosophy found political expression in "The Rebel" which along with his newspaper editorials. Furthermore,  in passing and answering urgent philosophical questions of the day, Camus articulate a critique of religion and of the Enlightenment and all its project. In 1957 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in a car accident in January 1960 at the age of 46.

 The Rebel are systematically skeptical of conclusions about the meaning of life, yet both works assert objectively valid answers to key questions about how to live. In his book length, essay "The Myth Of Sisyphus" Camus presents  a philosophy that contests philosophy itself. This Paradoxical situation, then, between our impulse to ask ultimate questions and the impossibility of achieving any adequate answer, is what Camus calls the absurd. Camus philosophy of the absurd explores the consequences arising from this basic paradox. Camus understanding of absurdity is best captured in an image, not an argument of Sisyphus training to push his rock up the mountain, watching it roll down, then descending after  the rock to begin all over, in an endless cycle. He said that, like sisyphus, human cannot help but continue to ask after the meaning of life, only to see our life tumble back down.