Tag Archives: Existentialism

Commentary: Looking for the Purpose of Life by Brian King

Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion January 16, 2022 Leave a comment

*The original article can be found at: https://philosophynow.org/issues/147/Looking_for_the_Purpose_of_Life

Brian King writes a solid introductory piece about what the purpose of life may be and why it is such a thorny question for philosophers to answer.

*Video below unrelated, but still entertaining and quasi-relevant!*

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An Overview of Camus on the Absurd

Morality and Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Social and Political Philosophy May 9, 2020 Leave a comment

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The Absurd (at least on Camus’s view) emphasizes “a fundamental disharmony” or “tragic incompatibility” in our finite existence. Camus ultimately argues that the Absurd is the product of a head-on collision between our seemingly universal human desire for objective order, meaning, and purpose in life and the bleak, indifferent, perhaps even soul-crushing “silence of the universe.” “The absurd is not in man nor in the world,” Camus writes, “but in their presence together…it is the only bond uniting them.”

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