Philosophical Dictionary

Today we are once again the meme! Join us as we discuss Santa and Sisyphus in light of Albert Camus's work on the absurdity of existence.

The final par of the "Philosophy Carol" series. Meeting the Ghost of Philosophy in an eternal cafe brings you to an epiphany.

Explore the profound relationship between cosmic nihilism and entropy in this philosophical examination of universal indifference. Discover how thermodynamic laws shape existence and how thinkers like Nietzsche provide frameworks for finding meaning in an uncaring cosmos.

Camus ends a book about suicide with a man pushing a rock forever and calls him happy. The line is an instruction to the reader, not a report on Sisyphus’s mood, and it closes a real argument about the absurd. Two philosophers later pushed back hard. Were they right, or is Sisyphus just asymptomatic?

A meme claims absurdists are nihilists who fell for their captor. Nietzsche’s notebooks split nihilism into a weary kind and a destructive kind, Camus warned that the absurd can make murder look indifferent, and Stockholm syndrome itself is a contested label. Is the joke unfair, or does it land a real hit?

Absurdism is the philosophical position that human search for meaning conflicts with a meaningless universe. Learn what absurdism actually is, common misconceptions, and how it differs from nihilism and existentialism.