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Camus' Sisyphus & Marcel's "Hope": Prepared By: Mark Jalalum

The document discusses Camus' myth of Sisyphus and the absurdity and repetition of human life, arguing that meaning can be found in embracing absurdity through our disposition. It also covers Marcel's concept of hope as a process that is lived communally in a metaphysical sense, requiring patience and waiting rather than being tied to imagined outcomes. Hope exists on different levels and is neither optimism nor pessimism, instead emerging from a state of captivity and despair.

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Camus' Sisyphus & Marcel's "Hope": Prepared By: Mark Jalalum

The document discusses Camus' myth of Sisyphus and the absurdity and repetition of human life, arguing that meaning can be found in embracing absurdity through our disposition. It also covers Marcel's concept of hope as a process that is lived communally in a metaphysical sense, requiring patience and waiting rather than being tied to imagined outcomes. Hope exists on different levels and is neither optimism nor pessimism, instead emerging from a state of captivity and despair.

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Camus’ Sisyphus

& Marcel’s
“hope”
PREPARED BY: MARK JALALUM
▪ Repetition, absurdity
▪ perfunctoriness of human life
Myth of ▪ Meaning to be found in absurdity: taking
on/assuming a certain disposition
Sisyphus: key ▪ Scorning the gods…makes Sisyphus superior
elements to his fate!
“Sketch of
Phenomenology
and a Metaphysics
of Hope”
▪ Levels/forms of hoping: laying/articulating
the problematic
▪ Precondition for hope/ing:
▪ Captivity/darkness
▪ Despair
▪ Is neither “optimism” nor “pessimism”
▪ Hope is a process—something that is to be lived: living in hope!: something
that is communal
▪ Not a physical form of hoping, but metaphysical!
▪ Transcends human imagination: not tied up to our imagined outcomes or
plans we seek/wish to realise!
▪ Requires: patience, waiting, relaxation!

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