Category: Albert Camus

In Existentialism, there are many figureheads like Jean-Paul Sarte, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and many others with different key doctrines. Freidrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus are important to the Existentialist Movement with Nietzsche being a pioneer for the movement and Camus writing many books and novels with Existentialist ideas. With Camus, it was absurd and…

I have not prepared for life or even college in the most traditional manner: I didnt always have a place to call home, I didnt have happily married parents, I didnt have a town that I could grow up in; rather I lived in and out of different homes, I was raised by a single…

Camus entire philosophy is based on the idea of the absurd life. He argued that life is essentially meaningless. He started his argument on the absurdity of life with the statement There is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. For others, a life without meaning is a life not worth living,…

Introduction The renowned French philosopher Albert Camus wrote the provocative piece “The Myth of Sisyphus” in 1942. This ground-breaking study explores the complex philosophical issues of life’s purpose and absurdity. The Greek tale of Sisyphus, who was doomed to carry a rock uphill for eternity to watch it roll back down, serves as the basis…

Philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, claiming the death of God, forced the largest announcement upon the Western culture. The world that was built by faith, all of a sudden became irrelevant of all its value. Years of being reliant on a divine being to explain our existence, our society was advancing and discovering new information about the…

Existentialism is a way of thinking about finding oneself and the significance of life through choice, decision, and moral obligation. The belief is that individuals are looking to discover who and what they really are throughout their life as they settle on decisions depending on their encounters, beliefs, and viewpoints. Individual decisions become extraordinary without…

World War II has gone down in history as one of the deadliest, most brutal, and inhumane wars of all time. It even outshines it predecessor, which was thought to be the war to end all wars, yet not even twenty five years later, a new threat by humanity to humanity emerged. With the death…

This paper will analyze the title The Misunderstanding* based on Camuss existentialist ideas of Absurdism. The Misunderstanding enfolds the whole universe of this play in it. On reading the text, one realizes how a misunderstanding can change the course of our lives. Our actions and instincts are all governed by how we understand things. This…

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Throughout the novel, The Plague focuses on the philosophy of its characters. This shines in the existentialist views of Tarrou or in both the faith and absurdity of Father Paneloux. Through the previous examples, Albert Camus forces the reader to confront their own beliefs and how they would react in the despair each character faces.…