Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus - Is "Absurd Freedom" Completely Absurd?

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ALBERT CAMUS THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS – IS “ABSURD FREEDOM” COMPLETELY ABSURD? // In this video, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of Albert Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus.” This will help you think critically about a nihilistic approach to the meaning of life.

Consider Sisyphus, condemned by the gods to roll a stone up a hill, only to have the stone fall back down to the bottom again. Endless pointless activity is his punishment for betraying the gods. But, Sisyphus persists. He continues the cycle. Why? Why doesn’t Sisyphus kill himself?

Camus thinks Sisyphus knowingly and willingly embraces his fate. This must occur in the moments of awareness Sisyphus is afforded as he returns down the hill to pick up his stone again. As Camus famously says, “All Sisyphus’ silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him. His rock is his thing….One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

What’s the analogy? What makes our life worth living given the absurdity of life? The stone is all of life’s burdens. We try to roll our stone up the hill, only to have that stone come tumbling down, only to have more burdens to hoist up the hill again.

When we inevitably die we leave our stone to the next generation. They now hoist it up the hill. This passing of burdens continues. But all the stone rolling will stop someday.

As the sun expands and the earth becomes too hot to support life, human stone rolling will cease. What was the point of all that activity? Didn’t it amount to nothing in the end?

There is no point. And the sooner we embrace this fate we become, like Sisyphus, an absurd person. We keep rolling our stone. In doing so, we take ownership of our fate. Our stone becomes *our* thing, not a thing we’re hopelessly saddled with by a cold and uncaring universe. We find happiness despite life having no meaning.

Is Camus take on the myth of Sisyphus comforting to you? Or do you think his premise about life’ being without meaning is unfounded? Do you think the universe offers clues to the meaning of life? Where is such meaning found?

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