History Is All Of Our Lives Absurd Analysis

Will History No Longer be History: Is All of Our Lives Absurd by Alex Prindle

People often wonder what makes them keep getting up in the morning, going through their normal daily routine, and thinking about what they should do or say. They think of, “Does life have any purpose?” or rather, “Do my actions impact anything in the future after I die?” or “What is the importance of my life.” Philosophers have taken on this argument for many years now, and there still isn’t a definitive answer for everyone. Some argue that life is absurd, doesn’t matter, and that were just small entities in a large, meaningless world, while others argue that our lives do indeed have purpose and that we can change the future. Nagel’s argument in his essay “The Absurd” states that life is absurd and our thoughts and actions don’t actually matter in the grand scheme of things. I disagree with Nagel’s argument, because I believe that life has purpose, and that everyone has some opportunity to change the world or the immediate

Or even, that all of our goals and aspirations that we strive towards will no longer matter in the future, or even that our goals in it-self aren’t actually real. But Nagel also argues, that because he believes that life is mostly absurd, he thinks that we should not take life so seriously because we will not exist at some point, because no one on earth can live forever. He also thinks that even if we as humans, indeed do believe life is absurd, that we shouldn’t even care about that statement, because we shouldn’t be taking life as seriously as we could. Nagel decides that the best way to approach life is in an ironic cynical way, because of his views on life’s