My belief on the Absurd and its contrast to Nihilism
Before I can begin to state my belief let me briefly summarize these two ideologies starting with Nihilism. In most definitions Nihilism is the belief is nothing. Albert Camus says "A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists."* I partially agree with Camus on this definition of Nihilism in the sense that it is not the belief in nothing, but the belief that nothing has its own meaning. Camus says that it is the absence in believing what exists, but I believe it is the belief that nothing has meaning. In my own words Nihilism is the absence of believing in the meaning of life. But how does Nihilism contrast from the Absurd? The Absurd is that there are two options in life. My favorite definition of the Absurd is from Camus "The absurd is sin without a god."** I believe this relates with absurdism because the absurd brings us to the idea that nothing has meaning but that we should still live our ...