Philosophical Dictionary
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One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy: What Camus Meant, and Why the Meme Says “Asymptomatic”
By Markus Uehleke
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?
