With Age, We Question Our Lives

Camus' philosophy is an amalgam of existentialism and humanism. An atheist, Camus did not believe that death, suffering, and human existence had any intrinsic moral or rational meaning. Because he did not believe in God or an afterlife, Camus held that human beings, as mortals, live under an inexplicable, irrational, completely absurd death sentence. Nevertheless, Camus did believe that people are capable of giving their lives meaning. The most meaningful action within the context of Camus' philosophy is to choose to fight death and suffering.

The existentialism of Albert Camus is based on his view of life as the Absurd. This sense of the Absurd derives from the realization that man is destined to die, as if being punished for a crime he never committed. There is no reprieve, and this makes life absurd (Peyre). There is no God in Camus’s conception, and those who hope for an afterlife are thus to be disappointed. Camus understood that the fact that there is no God also means that there is no meaning or purpose to life outside of living life to the fullest, and that there is a destined end. The one saving grace in the world seems to be the fact that while there is no God on which man can depend, man can live as if he can depend on his fellow man, even though he and they will all die (Sprintzen). This is another absurdity, but it is based on the fact that the

Some of his moral views, I believe, made even Camus uncomfortable. In 1942, he wrote The Stranger, a story of death, revenge, and murder, told blandly by one who awaited a prison execution. Critics note the moral and emotional indifference in that story, a coldness that seems to conflict with Camus’ 1947 novel, The Plague. That tale depicts how different inhabitants of a city manage the realities of a deadly pestilence, as each personally experiences the very real threat of death. Are the two stories in conflict? Camus would reject the claim, saying that both novels are simply case studies in the absurd. Moreover, if the critic found this answer unacceptable, he might then add that the absurdity of life makes even that

Introduction:Albert Camus was a French novelist, essayist, dramatist regarded as one of the finest philosophical writers of modern France. He earned a worldwide reputation as a novelist and essayist and won the Nobel Prize for literature. He became the leading moral voice of his generation during the 1950’s. One of the greatest modern writers, he expresses the moral concerns of 20th century. His writings describe the contemporary feeling that life has no ultimate meaning beyond immediate experience and explores the various philosophical schools of thought such as absurdism, nihilism and existentialism. In this paper, we trace the evolution of the protagonist Meursault as a nihilist in Albert Camus’ The Stranger.

Albert Camus was a renowned author and journalist; not only that, Camus’ occupation was a philosopher that profoundly contributed to absurdism. Camus was well known in the 1940s for his political journalism, novels and essays. (Biography) With works such as The Plague and The Stranger, Albert Camus impacted the world with his literature to an extend. Albert Camus endured many hardships from his childhood life all the way to his adult life, but living a short life he lived as a innovative mastermind. His works have left an everlasting impression on the literary world, and were able to leave a spellbinding legacy.

Albert Camus is considered one of the greatest existentialist writers of all time. However, although he was considered an existentialist writer, Camus never labeled himself as an existentialist. “No, I am not an existentialist”  (Albert Camus: Lyrical and Critical Essays, Vintage (1970)) Camus rejected in an 1945 interview, however in some of his literary works, some find that his writings are one of a true existentialistic thinker. Although many contrast these thoughts and believe that Camus was anything but a thinker of this philosophy, Camus is one of the main authors that people turn to research and read to understand the thinking of existentialism. One of his most famous books, The Plague, illustrates the need for a human to become an

M. Bakhtin once said, "We are to our own lives what the authors are to the books they write (Bakhtin in Gallagher, 40)." It's really hard to disagree with this assertion. The best evidence of this statement can be found in the story "Happy Endings" written by Margaret Atwood. The author develops, in a very interesting and attractive way, the idea of living a life and writes a plot of the story. To find a good understanding of those concepts, it is impossible to skip the process of asking correct questions and, of course, getting answers. Margaret Atwood like no one else does it so skillfully through asking a reader just two simple questions: "what" and "how and why." It is really hard to disagree with the essential inevitability of those

Camus believes there is a third option and is exploring the idea that we can accept and live in a life devoid of meaning. He believes that facing the absurd does not entail suicide but requires living life to its fullest. Many claim that Sisyphus is the ideal absurdity due to the fact that his punishment represents the human condition: struggling permanently without hope for

In Literature and Its Times Supplement 1: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them, an encyclopedia which touches on Camus’ influences in the few years prior to the writing and publication of The Stranger. Existentialism is the most appreciable factor in developing Camus’ personality, resulting in the character traits and attributes exemplified in The Stranger. In the world, there are billions of people, millions of cultures, and thousands of belief systems and religions. There are a small portion of them who do not associate themselves with any of them.

An absurdist tries to find meaning in a meaningless world without entirely accepting and understanding that every life eventually ends. Without fully accepting this fact, people solely contain themselves among the absurd walls desperately applying any type of meaning to their life. Partaking in these naive decisions ultimately implies that this person will never truly live and will ignore carpe diem despite realizing that every life eventually ends. Defying the philosophy of the absurd inevitably creates the absurd man. In the three works that will be discussed, by Albert camus tend to deal with the philosophy of the absurd and how the absurd man abides to this philosophy. Through three characters each example of the absurd man is evidently present among each work. However, with these three characters not all aspects of the absurd correspond, as they tend to transform with each character. But in order to fully understand the absurd man, people must first understand why these people exist through Absurd reasoning. Furthermore, aspects of the absurd partake in an ongoing transformation throughout Camus’ works, as each character represents their own versions of the absurd man.

Albert Camus is known all over the world as a French philosopher who contributed to the ideas of absurdism. He is also known for his philosophical literature. More specifically I want to focus my attention to what some people may call a book that influenced many generations. This name of the book is called “The Fall”. In this book, the reader views a different perspective of life from a character called monsieur Jean-Baptiste Clamence.

Widely recognized for philosophical writings as a French essayist and playwright, Albert Camus is a major contributor to exploring the absurd in modern Western literature. Characterized by highlighting the human condition, Camus’ writing style focuses on the everyday lives and inner psyche of individuals in both ordinary and extraordinary circumstances. Such a character-driven writing style is most notably displayed in his 1946 work, The Stranger, a tale of an emotionally-detached man known as Meursault, who lives in French-colonized Algiers during the intermission of the two World Wars. Consisting of two parts—The Stranger first explores his daily life as a free man, and in the second, delves more into the character’s own philosophy as Meursault contemplates during his remaining time in jail. At its core, the story explores the relationships and interactions of the odd Meursault through the character’s inner monologue and dialogue with those around him. The story itself is very ambiguous in its’ nature, and the idea of contemplating the meaning of life and purpose is prevalent throughout The Stranger. Evidently, Camus writes Meursault as a man who believes that life has no meaning, and therefore people are free to do as they please. To supplement the protagonist’s view, the author also presents Meursault alongside various personalities of key supporting characters, each with their own unique personality, and differing outlooks on life. Doing so thus enables Camus to get readers to contemplate about meaning through multiple perspectives. Stylistically, through many devices that emphasize diction, imagery, and story themes. Ultimately, The Stranger is a way for Camus to convey that there are multiple ways to perceive the meaning of life, using Meursault to directly project a different view than what readers are used to. Surely, with the intent of crafting a protagonist so strange, that Meursault becomes comparable to other characters; less so as a reflection of what the author personally believes the meaning of life is, but more of what such exploration of the idea could be.

Albert Camus was a French-Algerian writer, who made an enterprising contribution to a wide range of issues in moral philosophy. Camus was a moralist as well as a political theoretician and stood in high public esteem not only in France but also all over Europe after World War Ⅱ. Albert Camus spent a dismal childhood with poverty and bereavement of his father’s death. In his school years, Camus became an avid reader, developing a lifelong interest in literature as well as profoundly opened his eyes to philosophy. Therefore, Camus principally dealt with philosophy themes in his work. In this short biography of Albert Camus, we will explore his philosophy of absurdism and its effect on Camus’s morality. Besides, the reader will be examining Camus’s influences on existentialism.

Albert Camus is a prominent existential philosopher from Algeria. Despite the fact that Camus believes that life is meaningless and absurd, Camus thinks that we should embrace the meaningless and absurd. I fully agree with his opinion on life because Camus is essentially saying that we should find meaning within a meaningless life and take on life head on.

In his book-length essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus presents a philosophy that contests philosophy itself. This essay belongs squarely in the philosophical tradition of existentialism but Camus denied being an existentialist. Both The Myth of Sisyphus and his other philosophical work, The Rebel, are systematically skeptical of conclusions about the meaning of life, yet both works assert objectively valid answers to key questions about how to live. Though Camus seemed modest when describing his intellectual ambitions, he was confident enough as a philosopher to articulate not only his own philosophy but also a critique of religion and a fundamental critique of modernity. While rejecting the very idea of a philosophical system, Camus constructed his own original edifice of ideas around the key terms of absurdity and rebellion, aiming to resolve the life-or-death issues that motivated