Review Paper
Year: 2023 | Month: July-September | Volume: 7 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 1-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/gijash.20230301
The Purpose of Philosophical Absurdism
Madhavi Arvind Sharma1, G. N. Sharma2
1Private Docent, Nashik-422001
2RETD. PROF. S.B. College of Science, Aurangabad-431001
Corresponding Author: G. N. Sharma
ABSTRACT
ABSURDISM is a literary school or we may refer to it as a significant movement which caught attention of the majority and seemed to be effortfully exerting to discover a genuine meaning of human existence. In the past as well as present, there is a visible control of the unrevised religious scriptures on the societal norms. This is chiefly because they have been almost unanimously and sentimentally sanctioned eternity. This does apply to all religions without exception. The human tragedy witnessed by all owing to Nature-calamities and personal shortcomings are never given any importance, to challenge the reverential governing authority or agency, that is held in high esteem. Leading a life without understanding its continual vagaries and unpredictable pattern, automatically forces Pessimism to creep in. It is unintelligible for a common man to know the paradigm of life designed by the intelligent higher power. Therefore, an offshoot of Pessimism which got energized to become vocal, appeared first through Existentialism and then Absurdism. All these have the sole purpose of surfacing the Truth with no prejudiced notion against the established schools of thought. The visibly clear inability of human beings to discover a method to seek inherent value and meaning of life, naturally creates a chaos. The helplessness is systematically covered or deliberately masked, with pretentions of intellectualism and adherance to religiosity. The technique has repeatedly failed to provide a lasting effect owing to which the sensitive minds are facing more conflict within. That is why Universe itself seems to be settling on irrational and meaningless pursuits. Ultimately anyone who involves himself in the futile efforts to set an orderliness meets more of opposition or conflict. Scientifically this has been predicted through the concept of an entropean world. Therefore, it would always be a matter of commonsense to reserve a separate field for emotionalism and another arena which would demand empirical proofs. On a strict perusal it would be realized that much of the hype sanctioned to the traditional claims over methodicity in living life collapses in practical life. This paper attempts to bring out the meaningful judgements of the Philosophical Absurdism.
Keywords: Human Existence, Religiosity, Prejudiced Notions and Philosophical Absurdism.
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