[A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning](http://www.meltingasphalt.com/a-nihilists-guide-to-meaning/) [Meaning of Life is Absurd](https://moretothat.com/the-meaning-of-life-is-absurd/) ## Absurdism In philosophy, "the Absurd" refers to the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life, and the human inability to find any in a purposeless, meaningless or chaotic and irrational universe The absurdist philosopher Albert Camus stated that individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence. He then promotes life rich in wilful experience The ultimate hero of absurdism lives without meaning and faces suicide without succumbing to it As beings looking for meaning in a meaningless world, humans have three ways of resolving the dilemma. suicide, religion, the absurd Existentialists have generally advocated the individual's construction of his or her own meaning in life as well as the free will of the individual. Nihilists, on the contrary, contend that "it is futile to seek or to affirm meaning where none can be found." Absurdists, following Camus's formulation, hesitantly allow the possibility for some meaning or value in life, but are neither as certain as existentialists are about the value of one's own constructed meaning nor as nihilists are about the total inability to create meaning. Absurdists following Camus also devalue or outright reject free will, encouraging merely that the individual live defiantly and authentically in spite of the psychological tension of the Absurd.