Christian Rey H.

Balmori February 13, 2021

BS Psychology - 3 PHILO 25 YD

Insights

A. The Myth of Sisyphus

The whole philosophy of Camus is premised on the notion of the absurd. Humans have
a compulsion to attain enlightenment in stuff, most especially when we hope for something, and
we generally attempt to build where it really doesn't exist. However, since the world is cold and
oblivious to this quest for meaning, we will still face ludicrous circumstances in which our
intentions to seek meaning collapse. Our lives may seem to be pointless and are going to stay
as it is. However, Camus teaches us that accepting meaninglessness is the solution. An Absurd
man seems to be the entity who can genuinely understand that existence is absurd and to get
over it with a grin. We have to visualize that Sisyphus is happy, and, by doing this: Camus tells
us that we are capable of carrying out life as meaningless as rolling a boulder up a hill forever
and finding pleasure in it anyway. He also urges us to dismiss the notion about an afterlife
because it isn't just uncertain, but mostly because it really diverts attention via an opportunity to
follow in such a manner as to achieve what you get towards the next life. Attempting to excuse
this life by referring to the next seems to be another means, no matter how people say it, to
deny the absurdity of life.

B. Sketch of Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Hope

Hope is like an avenue to reach for what we want in life--there are wishes and a certain
notion; it gives us the power to continually build anew, but that is not the same as optimism.
Rather, hope ensures commitment by overcoming despair and inferiority. Optimism, like anxiety
or desire, perceives a favorable or unfavorable result or anticipates it. We are "desiring that
something" or "fearing that something."--hope is distinct; we don't hope to have something, we
only hope. Hope opposes the current predicament as definitive and/or absolute--but this does
not predict a particular outcome that might deliver us all from our misery. Hope goes beyond
expecting a particular form of our salvation, which is a minuscule chance. My expectations can
indeed be thwarted, but still, no result can shake me off from optimism if; and only if I retain
hope. It is really the non-specificity of hope that confers its influence on hope. The feeling of
hope that I trust in is the morphological process of hope, which would be basically very much
like wanting or wishing for doing something, hoping that if something happens or will become
the case. For some poorly specified result that we do not foresee being achieved, we hope,
dream, or wait.