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The Myth of Sisyphus – An Absurd Hero
In fact, Camus himself was uncomfortable with labels and rejected both the absurdist and existentialist title. He was a thinker and, like Sisyphus, took up his own rock alone and traveled the path that only he could follow. Like the knight of faith,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he knew that his understanding was limited; hence his rejection of all labels.
Rational thought breaks down inside of Kierkegaard’s paradox because it is incomplete – a human artifact. Nonetheless, Kierkegaard does not dismiss rational thought because having faith in the absolute and embracing the paradox rather than avoiding it, is not achieved through blind faith but through the use of all of one’s effort, including one’s cognitive tools.
Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher and theologian, and Albert Camus, a French Algerian philosopher and author, both explored the absurd. For Kierkegaard, man is limited and only death can reveal man to himself completely. But while living, he must both realize his limitations and trust that there is more to existence than meets the eye. The paradox is that after man has extended himself as far as he can using human tools – logic and reason – he must deliver himself to the absolute, through faith.
Kierkegaard’s knight of faith, having accepted limitation and also eternity within this world, has not escaped into a fantasy where God delivers him from pain and suffering – or at least promises eternal life if he will just keep hope alive in this one. Instead, the knight of faith walks alone, continually troubled by his immersion in the absurd and the paradox of existence. Impossible is his journey because he himself is incomplete and incapable of knowing where it will lead. Yet he continues up the narrow path alone, misunderstood by those who are “certain” of their purpose and duty.
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Existentialism and Continental Philosophy
Sartre, Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Historical & Moral Development in Existentialism
The Absurd, the Absolute, and Eternity
Both Kierkegaard and Camus approached the absurd; they struggled with it: Kierkegaard attempted to liv
Camus is most fascinated by Sisyphus as he stands at the summit, watching as his hard work is erased as the rock races towards its starting place. Perhaps death is the end and after rolling the rock of life up the mountain, human existence – meaningless and excruciating – is erased. However, Sisyphus’s awareness of this possibility, his concentration on the disappearing rock, takes the sting from this possible fate. The tragedy of his story,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], its absurdity, is that he knows that it may end and without meaning.
But Camus has chosen Sisyphus as his tragic hero, Sisyphus who hates death and exists after mortal life in the underworld; his act of rolling a rock for eternity betrays his mortality. Though he loves life and defies the gods, his placement in a world after his earthly existence reveals that atheism is not his endpoint. It may be his tool, since hope is depicted as a distraction that takes man away from himself and lures him towards comfortable falsities, but it is not his conclusion.
Kierkegaard – Rational Thought and the Leap of Faith
Similarly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Camus introduces The Myth of Sisyphus. Sisyphus, an absurd hero who, with full knowledge of his incomprehensible and thus meaningless task, rolls a rock up a mountain just to watch it tumble back down to the bottom after each successive trip, continues as a limited human,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], just as Kierkegaard’s knight of faith.
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