Camus

Question 1

What is the question Camus addressing?

Answer 1

Suicide, Judging whether life is, or not worth living.

Question 2

What is the absurd?

Answer 2

incalculable feeling that arises with the meaning/purpose of life and the irrationality of life. (like going to work everyday)

Question 3

What are the first three steps to the absurd according to Camus?

Answer 3

life
weariness of life
beginning of consciousness, sparked by weariness

Question 4

What are the last two steps of the absurd according to Camus?

Answer 4

Return to life’s daily routine, or a definitive awakening

definitive awakening is followed by suicide or living in consciousness of absurd.

Question 5

How does one live in the consciousness of the absurd?

Answer 5

They value their own consciousness and living for the quantitiy of experience

Question 6

Who is Camus’s example of a person who is happy?

Answer 6

Sisyphus, he knows his fate and continues to struggle, apparently because of who he is, he is happy.