Please, thoughtfully and thoroughly answer following.
Your answers MUST BE IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
Additionally, please comment at least 2 peers posts. Make sure your comments are thoughtful, detailed, and include explanation. They should not be vague, unspecific, or filled with platitudes like “good job”, “we answered the same”, “that’s interesting”, “good point”, etc. If you do say, “I agree / disagree make sure you explain why AND explain your own perspective.
Please answer the questions 1-2 by Saturday, 6/26. Please complete the discussion by Sunday, 6/27.
1. Camus explains the process of how we come to understand the absurd. It includes realizations about the:
mechanical nature life
about our relationship to time – “time carries us and we also carry time”
about our understanding of nature – “nature secretes the inhuman”
about our understanding of humans themselves – “man secretes the inhuman”
Explain any 2 of these 4 realizations (explain a 3rd. one for extra credit). Include examples to illustrate.
2. Ultimately, what is the absurd? Explain using examples.
3. What is the absurd mans ultimate goal? And, how does society make this difficult for him?
4. How is Sisyphus in the original scenario like the absurd man and why does Camus see him as the absurd hero?
5. Read the Values box on P. 549. Do the exercise. Can you “watch your values without identifying with them, without the neutral watcher within you owning them as its values?” Explain
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