Neither Kierkegaard or Camus pose Absurdity as a question. In their works, Absurdity is not something to understand but to accept; a premise to the questions they explore; life's context and environment.
For Kierkegaard those questions he explores bias towards the creation of meaning, existential dread, and christian virtue. For Camus those questions were on suicide and reason.
While Camus does explicitly tackle Absurdity as a concept, he concluded that the absurd arises from our desire for order and meaning juxtaposed with the indifferent nature of our environment. The Absurd is consequently the context of metaphysics and our relationship with everything other than ourselves. To Camus it is not a life's great challenge to ponder the Absurd, it is life's great challenge to not commit suicide in an absurd universe. To Kierkegaard it isn't a challenge but a feature of the environment to overcome by creating meaning.
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Neither Kierkegaard or Camus pose Absurdity as a question. In their works, Absurdity is not something to understand but to accept; a premise to the questions they explore; life's context and environment.
For Kierkegaard those questions he explores bias towards the creation of meaning, existential dread, and christian virtue. For Camus those questions were on suicide and reason.
While Camus does explicitly tackle Absurdity as a concept, he concluded that the absurd arises from our desire for order and meaning juxtaposed with the indifferent nature of our environment. The Absurd is consequently the context of metaphysics and our relationship with everything other than ourselves. To Camus it is not a life's great challenge to ponder the Absurd, it is life's great challenge to not commit suicide in an absurd universe. To Kierkegaard it isn't a challenge but a feature of the environment to overcome by creating meaning.