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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

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Is Your Life Like Sisyphus?

In Camus view, when you experience your day as sort of going on in this deadening way and you're just doing the things that you always do. "Our lives really just are like the life of Sisyphus who rolls this boulder up the hill from morning till night," he says. But what I came to believe, and I tried to write about this once, is that there's an extra part to it, which is somehow that, yes, that's the way things are, and it's inadequate.

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