![]() ![]() ![]() Camus is interested in pursuing a third possibility: that we can accept and live in a world devoid of meaning or purpose. If life has no meaning, does that mean life is not worth living? If that were the case, we would have no option but to make a leap of faith or to commit suicide, says Camus. Camus opens the essay by asking if this latter conclusion that life is meaningless necessarily leads one to commit suicide. Either we will discover that meaning through a leap of faith, by placing our hopes in a God beyond this world, or we will conclude that life is meaningless. ![]() We will never find in life itself the meaning that we want to find. The central concern of The Myth of Sisyphus is what Camus calls "the absurd." Camus claims that there is a fundamental conflict between what we want from the universe (whether it be meaning, order, or reasons) and what we find in the universe (formless chaos). ![]()
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