• In the ancient Greek myth, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a rock up a mountain over and over again, forever. Camus wanted to think of Sisyphus as being conscious.
• He wrote about the routines in life such as riding the street care, going to work at a factory or an office, eating and riding home. This happens over and over again. He wrote that at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, weariness comes. The is a conscious awakening and the outcome is suicide or recovery. Camus wrote, “For everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth anything except through it.” He thinks that life is better lived without meaning.
• He does not believe in God or anything afterlife. He writes of the absurd, the separation from man and his life. He believes that there is no meaning because everyone’s fate is death in the end, and because he objects to the …show more content…
I however do not think that life is meaningless. I think that meaning comes from God, and even those who do not believe in God such as Taylor believes that meaning comes from within us. Some arguments for the existence of God are given by St. Thomas Aquinas. The first is the proof from motion. We can observe motion all around us and something or someone must be the first mover. The first mover is God. The second proof is the of cause. If everything in the universe has a cause. There cannot be an infinite series of causes. The first maker is God. The third proof is of necessary being. If everything was contingent, then at some point there would have been nothing. Since only nothing can come from nothing; there would be nothing now. Thus, God is a necessary being. The forth proof is degrees of perfection. We measure good and evil to a degree in people. There must be something to base this on; thus, God is the perfect being. The fifth proof is from design. There seems to be a clear design to the universe and everything in it. Therefore, there must be a
• He wrote about the routines in life such as riding the street care, going to work at a factory or an office, eating and riding home. This happens over and over again. He wrote that at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, weariness comes. The is a conscious awakening and the outcome is suicide or recovery. Camus wrote, “For everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth anything except through it.” He thinks that life is better lived without meaning.
• He does not believe in God or anything afterlife. He writes of the absurd, the separation from man and his life. He believes that there is no meaning because everyone’s fate is death in the end, and because he objects to the …show more content…
I however do not think that life is meaningless. I think that meaning comes from God, and even those who do not believe in God such as Taylor believes that meaning comes from within us. Some arguments for the existence of God are given by St. Thomas Aquinas. The first is the proof from motion. We can observe motion all around us and something or someone must be the first mover. The first mover is God. The second proof is the of cause. If everything in the universe has a cause. There cannot be an infinite series of causes. The first maker is God. The third proof is of necessary being. If everything was contingent, then at some point there would have been nothing. Since only nothing can come from nothing; there would be nothing now. Thus, God is a necessary being. The forth proof is degrees of perfection. We measure good and evil to a degree in people. There must be something to base this on; thus, God is the perfect being. The fifth proof is from design. There seems to be a clear design to the universe and everything in it. Therefore, there must be a