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Title: Critical analysis of Albert Camus's essay The Myth of Sisyphus
Description: The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus.This note focuses on the main ideas as presented by Camus in his essay critically.It sees the condition of modern man as akin to the Greek hero,Sisyphus.

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“Despite so many ordeals,my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is
well
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Camus was a French philosopher,author,and journalist
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The present essay deals with one of the most interesting aspects of the philosophy of Existentialismthe feeling of the Absurd
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This paradoxical situation,between our impulse to ask ultimate questions and the
impossibility of achieving any adequate answer,is what Camus calls the absurd-“This divorce
between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of Absurdity
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For Camus,“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem,and that is suicide”
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He suggests that suicide amounts to a confession that life is too difficult to live or that
it is not worth living
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Following the
philosopher,Soren Kierkegaard and aking “a leap of faith”in God,by abandoning reason is also not a
solution to the Absurd
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Rejecting physical and philosophical suicide,Camus reaches the final alternative:One must fully
confront the truth of one’s existence and accept it
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” Camus counsels a kind of revolt,which
means for him that we must have knowledge of the certainty of our ultimate fate—death—but
refuse to be resigned to it
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When a person,like Sisyphus attempts to bear the load of the rock that is life,is when he experiences
the “lucidity that was to constitute his torture,at the same time crowns his victory
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Still,“this is the rock’s
victory” that the moment one becomes aware of its entirety,one dismisses its absurdity
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Camus holds that suicide
tempts us with the illusory promise of freedom,but the only real freedom is to embrace the
absurdity
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That is true freedom
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He ends the essay with a famous passage that combines all his

strange pessimism and optimism
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”and just as“One must imagine Sisyphus happy”,one must seek happiness too
Title: Critical analysis of Albert Camus's essay The Myth of Sisyphus
Description: The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus.This note focuses on the main ideas as presented by Camus in his essay critically.It sees the condition of modern man as akin to the Greek hero,Sisyphus.