Existence & Meaning of Life · The source of meaning in life

Absurdism

Live without erasing the confrontation between our demand for meaning and the world's silence.

What it claims

For absurdism, the absurd is neither a property of the world alone nor of human beings alone. It arises in their confrontation. Camus (1942) locates it where the human demand for meaning meets a world that gives no answer.

Nearby positions

Goes together with

Existentialism Secular Humanism

Opposed to

Cosmic Teleology / Meaning Realism Nihilism (Cosmic Nihilism)

Key thinkers

Albert Camus · Thomas Nagel · Søren Kierkegaard · Emil Cioran