The philosophical dictionary of Heinrich Schmidt points out that since the Second World War the absurd counts as a feature of the human condition ( Seinstellung). Generally, we tend to name ‘absurd’ anything that opposes us, be it valuable or worthless, true or false, rational or irrational. Dictionaries inform that absurditas comes from Latin and means irrationality, senselessness or unfitness. ![]() The chapters Authority and Rule and Authority and Partnership build the foundation for the next chapters, which will provide concrete examples for these types of relationships.īefore addressing nihilism, I wish to clarify what the absurd is and what it means to our life. I will identify various aspects of nihilism and the absurd and present largely their traits and their connection to rule and partnership respectively. Misfortune or fortune, success or failure depend on these answers. In the philosophical essays The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel: an essay on man in revolt, Albert Camus speaks about nihilism and revolt as the two possible answers to the absurd. ![]() Leader: often someone, who needs the others and makes them believe they need him. Humans, worshipped like gods, lose actually in time their human tongue.
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