![]() The artist's choice to depict the tragic hero carrying (rather than pushing) the boulder heightens the drama and our empathy. Camus looks at Sisyphus as a representative human engaged in endless mechanical and meaningless toil. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a precocious human punished by the gods to push a boulder to the top of a mountain only to have it roll back down again. Meaning, if the world is indifferent, should we too be indifferent to a meaningful life or even life itself? ![]() ![]() Try to ignore the fully-packed context of the word "suicide" in a mental health capacity Camus means it as a philosophical question. ![]() The answer, underlying and appearing through the paradoxes which cover it, is this: even if one does not believe in God, suicide is not legitimate. The fundamental subject of The Myth of Sisyphus is this: it is legitimate and necessary to wonder whether life has a meaning therefore, it is legitimate to meet the problem of suicide face to face. ![]() Albert Camus' (NovemJanuary 4, 1960) monumental philosophical work, The Myth of Sisyphus, is a series of essays in which Camus makes sense of the human quest for order and meaning in an indifferent (and thus absurd) universe. ![]()
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