Abstract
I take issue with two suggestions of Joel Feinberg's: first that it is incoherent to suppose that human life as such is absurd and second that a particular human life may be absurd and yet saved from being tragic by being fulfilled. I also argue that human life as such may well be absurd and I consider various responses to this.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 75-106 |
Number of pages | 32 |
Journal | Journal of Ethics |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Philosophy
Keywords
- Absurd
- Absurdity
- Albert Camus
- Fulfillment
- God
- Godot
- Good
- Good for
- Joel Feinberg
- Justification
- Pointless
- Pointlessness
- Self-fulfillment
- Sisyphus
- Thomas Nagel
- Tragedy
- Tragic
- Value
- Worth