We often worry about the meaning of life. As finite beings, we are often concerned if our lives is meaningful at all. Why worry if tomorrow we might die? We spend so much time trying to build a life and give meaning to it. Now the question is if being finite beings can prove the argument that life is absurd. The common argument supports that the brevity of life is an argument that life is absurd. This argument seems to suggest that if we lived longer instead of being finite being, life would have meaning. Nagel argues that being finite beings is not an evidence that life is absurd. In this paper, I am going to support Nagel’s view that “a life that is absurd if it lasts seventy years, be infinitely absurd if it lasted an eternity”. (Nagel p.12) I am also going to present Nagel’s counterargument and the evidences he used to support that life is absurd.
The common argument suggests that life is absurd because of the fact that it is finite. It suggests that living a limited numbers of years is an evidence that life …show more content…
Nagel suggest that we take life too seriously. We sometimes try to approach our day-to-day life in a carefree and silly way, but deep inside us we take it seriously. This seriousness is proven because of the fact that we spend a good amount of time reflecting on what we are doing with our lives and what we will be doing with it. When life is been reflected on, we noticed that there are things we take for granted. As Nagel explains in his argument, we reflect on life’s big decisions such who we are going to get married to and spend the rest of our lives with, we reflect on what school we are going to attend and what career we will be in. We also reflect everyday on small things such what clothes to wear, what movie to watch or what to eat. Then we stop thinking about those little things after a series of inconclusive decisions and
The common argument suggests that life is absurd because of the fact that it is finite. It suggests that living a limited numbers of years is an evidence that life …show more content…
Nagel suggest that we take life too seriously. We sometimes try to approach our day-to-day life in a carefree and silly way, but deep inside us we take it seriously. This seriousness is proven because of the fact that we spend a good amount of time reflecting on what we are doing with our lives and what we will be doing with it. When life is been reflected on, we noticed that there are things we take for granted. As Nagel explains in his argument, we reflect on life’s big decisions such who we are going to get married to and spend the rest of our lives with, we reflect on what school we are going to attend and what career we will be in. We also reflect everyday on small things such what clothes to wear, what movie to watch or what to eat. Then we stop thinking about those little things after a series of inconclusive decisions and