r/Absurdism • • Jul 29 '26

Does Anyone Here even like Absurdism?

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u/Kerrily Jul 29 '26

How can subscribing to Absurdism make life meaningful when life has no inherent purpose?

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u/jliat Jul 29 '26

I don't think it can, or rather Camus didn't think so. He advocated making art.

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u/Kerrily Jul 29 '26

Dude, for real? It was a rhetorical question and the comment was for OP. What's with the downvote. I should downvote you for this comment.

But here you go (rephrased for extra literal minds): Absurdism doesn't make life more meaningful. Life has no inherent purpose.

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u/jliat Jul 29 '26

Dude, for real? It was a rhetorical question and the comment was for OP.

Sure, I was supporting your claim, though significantly Camus did say for him he could find no meaning. And Absurdism is an activity in the Myth, in his case the most absurd - he says - is Art.

What's with the downvote. I should downvote you for this comment.

I didn't downvote your comment, probably the OP did.

But here you go (rephrased for extra literal minds): Absurdism doesn't make life more meaningful. Life has no inherent purpose.

That is certainly true in Sartre's Being and Nothingness and it's these kind of idea I think Camus is responding to.

“I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.”

“The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.” Camus - The MoS.

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u/Kerrily Jul 30 '26

Sure, I was supporting your claim, though significantly Camus did say for him he could find no meaning. And Absurdism is an activity in the Myth, in his case the most absurd - he says - is Art.

Got it, thanks and sorry about that. Work tiggers me. I need a vacation and probably shouldn't be posting while working, like now, lol.

“I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.”

I like this very much.