Absurdism
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 Kierkegaard designed the relationship framework based (in part) on how a person reacts to despair. Absurdist philosophy fits into the 'despair of defiance' rubric. |
In philosophy, "the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any. In this context absurd does not mean "logically impossible," but rather "humanly impossible." The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd, but rather, the Absurd arises by the contradictory nature of the two existing simultaneously. Absurdism, therefore, is a philosophical school of thought stating that the efforts of humanity to find inherent meaning will ultimately fail (and hence are absurd) because the sheer amount of information as well as the vast realm of the unknown make certainty impossible. And yet, some absurdists (such as Camus
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- Related: Absurdist fiction, Discordianism, Existential nihilism, Existentialism, Lottery of birth, Nihilism, Non sequitur (literary device), Pataphysics, Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Stranger (novel), Theatre of the Absurd
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| Absurdist Monthly Review Magazine Absurdist Monthly Review Magazine amr.obook.org - Web |
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