Philosophy Questions
The main quotations which are evident and interesting in this text includes “though what we perform now were going to counts in many years, how could that maintain our current situations from being absurd?” This quotation simply tries to explain the view that absurdity fundamentally lies on the notion that anything we do will especially our actions matter in the near future. The next instrumental quote proposed by Nigel is that life is absurd since we ignore doubts which cannot be fulfilled, making them to continue living with almost uncontrollable carefulness despite all these doubts .the quotation thoroughly explains unsettled conflicts within people as the root origin of sadness the individuals life put.
Nigel is formulated a crucial quotation which states that an individual usually recommends his or her love in various means of communication such as telephone as preference to the recorded form of message or as if he or she is as being knighted, his or her pants fall down” this quotation explains the clear differences between pretention or and reality on the grounds.
According to Nagel most humanity poses explained reasons to the absurdity of life. On various occasions many people believe that life is absurd, and majority even proceed further to dealing with this belief in their daily lives absurd. The first and foremost reason for absurdity according to Nigel begins with the notion that anything we undertake will counts in the remote future. This sentiment is quickly rejected by Nigel with blatant response that, no matter how you view the situation, the attached meaning in the future is directly depends on the present meaning. Hence time duration cannot, and does not matter towards meaning. The second argument on absurdity relates our knowledge of space and time, for “we are small specks in the uncountable width of the entire world, our precious lives are somehow stagnant even on a geographical time scale, let aside a cosmic one; we will be dead any minute”.Nagel asked how individual life span and physical strength can make a meaningless life less absurd- yet there are no grounds for the argument given. The third and final argument stems from our mortal state of being, so given the fact that because we are destined to perish, all connections of justification must depart off in the thin air.
Irony is Nagel’s chosen response to the realization that life is absurd. Nagel does not suggest that irony enable us to escape the absurd, but that “what sustains us, in belief as in action, is not a reason for justification, but something more basic”. In effect, what Nagel articulates is that after the realization, we continue to live and work, and take ourselves seriously in action; however our seriousness is laced with irony. This totally contrast the Camus’s arrogant solution of “triggering a fist around the universe which cannot be solved by our problems, and continuing through the problems persist, Solely because Nagel sees the conflict as arising from a “collision within us,” meanwhile Camus depicts the absurd as a problem arising from a conflict between the world and our demands. Camus’s defiant solution, however, does not make our lives an-absurd, which leads us on to discover what gives a life meaning.
Meursault appears to be an ordinary, and completely detached from society and the world around him. However, in making Meursault an outsider, Camus is demonstrating his absurdist philosophy. Should we all be more like Meursault? His theory states that life has no meaning, but as a society by the guide of our religion and well laid moral standards social organizations can promote these moral standards. For example in our temporary societies is a normal phenomenon that, any man who doesn’t cry at his mother’s funeral is liable to be condemned to his or her mother’s death.
Work Cited
Paul M. Wallenberg. The Absurd Man. Retrieved on 5th May 2013from
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/indexa.htm
Maloney. Themes of the Absurd in the Stranger. Retrieved on 5th May 2013 from http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/sisyphus/section14.rhtml
