Absurdism

In the last blog I talked about the main philosophical ideas namely, Nihilism, Existentialism and Absurdism. In this blog, ill go somewhat deeply to explain Absurdism. In the last blog, I said that man’s act of giving meaning to life is absurd. I will elaborate on that. The scope of the blog is limited, so this is a glimpse of the arguments that Camus does through his works.

Absurdity

In his works and in the essay, Albert Camus describes the Absurdity of life. In simple terms contradictions, that surround us till the end. In the Myth of Sisyphus, he also says that science is also of little help when it comes to explaining life and to give it a meaning. There is no truth but merely truths. The magnitude of Absurd is in the same proportion as the difference in the terms of comparison. In this way, Absurdity is the link between the human mind and physical reality. Like everything, Absurdity ends with death. Another thing is the leap of the reason that ends the absurdity. Camus calls it philosophical suicide.

We get the general idea of what the absurd is, now let’s understand the consequences that arise on accepting this absurdity in life. There are 3 consequences The revolt, the freedom, and the Passion

The revolt

The revolt means to keep the absurdity alive without taking the leap. Absurdity is born out of confrontation of the mind with the physical reality. Camus says that living is to keep Absurd alive.

But in the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

To keep absurd alive you should not have hope, because hope is basically an expectation for change of situations or conditions. The point of revolt is to live through the adversaries and also to realize that it’s no different than to live through pleasures.

The freedom

Understanding one rule of the universe, one piece of information that nothing matters is enough to accept everything, every ideology, every action, every consequence, and every situation. Everything is worth a try, the world is entirely yours to grab. There is no superiority among values so the man himself is the judge of his actions. Freedom as a consequence of absurdity does not permit crime and violation for it's childish in essence. The absurd accept the equivalence of the actions and ideals.

The absurd man is not free of their action they accept the consequences of the actions, in other words, the absurd man does not deny their actions and deceives himself in the name of freedom and thus accepts the responsibility for the actions.

The Passion

The passion means nothing more in this context than we know. Through constant revolt and freedom to choose our revolt, passion is born in the absurd. In its essence, passion is following the fate/will/fire that multiplies life’s experiences and to live to the fullest.

Life is the sum of all your choices.

When you stop/stuck on one thing that is the moment of thinking "why", to reignite the fire to follow the ideals created by you by remembering the chain of reasoning you developed, or to destroy them with your current reasoning. by the following reasoning so far, I think life is like the bad suspense movie that you have watched but still love to watch because of the actor and that actor is you yourself.

These are my understanding of the topic. Comment down your thoughts.