He identifies three characteristics of the absurd life: revolt, freedom, and passion. Revolt is the state in which we must not accept any answer or reconciliation in our struggle. Freedom is the state in which we are absolutely free to think and behave as we choose. The last of the three is passion which I feel relates to me the most is the state in which we must p

“Knowing whether or not man is free doesn’t interest me. I can experience only my own freedom. As to it, I can have no general notions, but merely a few clear insights. The problem of “freedom as such” has no meaning. For it is linked in quite a different way with the problem of God. Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes from the fact that the very notion that makes the problem of freedom possible also takes away all its meaning. For in the presence of God there is less a problem of freedom than a problem of evil. You know the alternative: either we are not free and God the all-powerful is responsible for evil. Or we are free and responsible but God is not all-powerful.”(page56)

My understanding is that God is all powerful but he grated us free will, the option to make decisions that will affect us as individuals and a community as a whole. The fact is that evil exist and there is no utopian society, that is not a result of God but those that are living in the absurd with an altered state of consciousness, in which that they believe there is no life after death so punishment is not a fear of theirs. Evil only exist in those whom do not have a strong enough conscious (which I believe is God or a higher being) to prevent them from carrying out those actions. I believe that evil comes from a mixture of two states of the absurd: freedom blended with revolt. You are free to make your own decisions while not accepting any answer or reconciliation in a struggle or time of hardship. That is when your freewill guides you to the direction of your actions, evil or otherwise.

Either you choose revolt, freedom, or passion to live life in the absurd. Camus does ask the question of whether life is worth living if we don’t appeal to anything outside of our experience. We should base our lives on our experience in stead of something outside of it. But I feel that in order for me to live freely I need to place my life and existence in the hand of a higher being. The passage “now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen,” has a great meaning to it. Although God is not something you can see or touch it is through faith that you can experience that higher being. The absurd man demands certainty above all else, and recognizes that he can only be certain of the absurd. The absurd man wants to live only with what he can be sure of. In order to cling to the absurd, then, the absurd man mus

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