In any case, it seems that everyone who comes to the conclusion that the world is absurd-that is, that the world cannot be understood with human reason-does everything they can to try to escape that conclusion, as can be seen in the philosophies of Kierkegaard and Chestov and in the literary works of Dostoevsky and Kafka. Others try to escape the meaninglessness of life through religious hope. It is implicitly assumed that if there is no meaning to life, then one might as well commit suicide. It is more important than any other question since it deals with an issue that is obviously more important than any other: the meaning of life. The first question in philosophy is whether or not one ought to kill himself. The title essay, which makes up the majority of the collection, investigates these concepts in an abstract, philosophical manner, while the rest of the essays are illustrations of the principles contained in the first. The Myth of Sisyphus is a collection of essays written over the course of about twenty years that revolve around the subjects of freedom from ideology and meaning and living life to the fullest degree.
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