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The struggle being an absence of hope, continual rejection, and conscious dissatisfaction. If these three are altered by a proposed view, then the absurd losses meaning and attitudes resulting from holding onto these three, soiled. (How does the loss of any of these three, soil conclusions? How are the conclusions different and why is this soiled conclusion “soiled” compared to if these three remain intact?)
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Matt Connors
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The absurd is a confrontation between our expectation that the world is reasonable, has a meaning for us, etc and the world possessing paradoxes and silence. If the world or human is gone (death) then so too is the absurd, there is no one without the other since it is the tension born of the contradiction, which results in struggle for humans.
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Matt Connors
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The absurd is THE conflict between the contradiction of human existence. Our drive for a recognizable pattern, a unity, something familiar to stabilize our perspective of nature and our world holding paradoxes which object any stable perspective. This implies that without a human, there is no absurd, for there would be no entity searching in such an environment, implying this to be a pure human issue.
— Jun 13, 2026 09:43AM
Matt Connors
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This section read of other philosophers examination into what Camus calls the absurd, the tension between seeking unity and clarity from a world which is silent. Covers Heidegger’s interpretation of anxiety, Jasper (had difficulty understanding his view), Chestov (also struggled here), Kierkegaard, and Husserl’s phenomenology’s denial of cosmic meaning and difference from other, previous, methods of reason.
— Jun 11, 2026 08:52AM
Matt Connors
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Getting better at deciphering Camus’ writing. Was very pulled in! Similar themes in these pages to the “Philosophize This!” podcast. People’s tendency to simplify the world and then make a truth claim, using their world view (which foundation is that the claim is true) to rationalize why/how their truth claim is true. Circular and paradoxical. Much more interesting but running out of characters, great re
— Jun 10, 2026 09:21AM
Matt Connors
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Difficult read so far. Still learning to decipher Albert Camus’ writing style. Interesting first 12 pages outlining the “absurd”, what is constitutes, and Camus’ consecutive contemplation of if life is worth living.
— Jun 08, 2026 07:22AM
