“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable” (MS, 122). It is not that discovering the absurd leads necessarily to happiness, but rather that acknowledging the absurd means also accepting human frailty, an awareness of our limitations, and the fact that we cannot help wishing to go beyond what is possible
For Camus, happiness includes living intensely and sensuously in the present.
s “the repudiation of suicide and the acceptance of the desperate encounter between human inquiry and the silence of the universe” (
Living and eating “are themselves value judgments” (Camus 1968, 160). “To breathe is to judge
e Stranger from the point of view of the victim, correctly calls the murder of his Arab “kinsman” a “philosophical crime
Evil and virtue are mere chance or caprice. (R, 5)
different than Sartre, who built from the cogito an “essay in phenomenological ontology
nd solidarity. “I revolt, therefore we are” (R, 22) is his paradoxical statement. But how can an I lead to a we? How does “we are” follow from “I revolt”?
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