Introduction to Camus Essay

During my eleventh year at Buckley, I had begun to explore the world of exitential nihlism- but my fasincation turned into a massive obession and this magnificient philosophy turned to become how i'd make my daily decisions, what my relationships were, what i did, and what my interal thoughts were. It was a philosophy that turned everything that was hard and complex into easy and simple- it was a philosophy that made me face the absurd fearlessly and live with it, just as Meursault has. The Stranger by Albert Camus and The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley will both mirror that of my life, Meursaults life, and the theories of existential nihlism. As Friedrich Nietzsche once brilliantly stated: "A nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought not to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist. According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos — at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists." In short, existential nihlism and the above advocates force us to face the knowledge that nothing is meaningful except meaninglessness.