On Absurdity

"The Absurd" is defined as the conflict between the human tendency to seek a meaning for life and his inability to find any. So what is humanly impossible, rather that logically impossible, is absurd.

To resolve one's discomfort with this issue, Camus and Kierkegaard have proposed three ways:

1. Suicide, as a measure of escaping the situation. But ending one's existence in a meaningless universe due to a lack of meaning is absurd in itself.

2. Religion, To believe that there is an alternative reality, or perhaps it's better to say one that is free of the absurd and therefore is burdened with meaning.

3. To accept and embrace the absurd, which does not mean that to accept and believe that everything is meaningless, but according to Camus, that meaning is subjective and developed overtime for one's sake of content. As Camus said: " one's freedom – and the opportunity to give life meaning – lies in the recognition of absurdity. If the absurd experience is truly the realization that the universe is fundamentally devoid of absolutes, then we as individuals are truly free. "To live without appeal, is a philosophical move to define absolutes and universals subjectively, rather than objectively. The freedom of humans is thus established in a human's natural ability and opportunity to create their own meaning and purpose; to decide (or think) for him- or herself."