The concept of the absurd resolves a classic existential dilemma: that is, the meaning of life. "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus explores the nature of reality via what the author calls the "absurd." Life has an absurd character to it, which human beings grapple with and find either confusing or funny. Despite the terrors committed throughout history, he resigned from the temptation to respond to evil with evil, and urged Christians to take up their cross and respond to death with the life he secularly preached and they religiously acclaimed.
Throughout his writings, both fictional and non, and personal life, Camus was at home in the major trials of history, but at peace in the human celebration of life. When he received the Nobel Prize in 1957, he publicly thanked the committee and world for his recognition as a novelist, but stressed the importance of life and its recognition as a political cause. Throughout The Unbeliever and the Christians, Camus reformulates his interpretation of meaningful life and death, limned by the conversation of the history and relevance of Christianity. But we can reduce the number of tortured children." (73)ĭespite his political predilections that spawned disagreement with many specific groups, from the Rosenbergs to Arabs later on, he worked endlessly to save them from the death penalty that he thought, while perhaps a tempting punishment, was an ultimate punishment for the men making and carrying out the orders.Ĭamus worked tirelessly to end what he called Absurd Death, nominally any death that meaningless was committed in the name of politics. Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. "But it is true that I, and a few others, know what must be done, if not to reduce evil, at least not to add to it.
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