Smith on the Possible Absurdity of Life
Michael Smith (RSSS, ANU) has posted Is That All There Is?. Here is a taste:
- With some trepidation, I want to say a little about the idea that life is absurd, about the nature of self-fulfilment, and about the relationship between the absurdity of life on the one hand and self-fulfilment on the other. I say ‘with some trepidation’ because the first time I found myself wondering about these issues I was still an adolescent. Though I have thought about them on and off ever since I have been reluctant to commit to paper in case I reveal the sad fact that my views are still basically those of an adolescent. The opportunity to respond to Joel Feinberg’s splendid essay ‘Absurd Self-Fulfilment’ is, however, too good to refuse. I am therefore throwing caution to the wind.