Sisyphus and the Others-A Reflection on the Transcendence from the Cultural Point of View

Modern Philosophy 6:66-72 (2006)
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Existentialist writer gamma Miao in its "myth of Sisyphus" by "paradoxical" concept expresses the meaning of human existence for reflection. This significance is reflected in the limited nature and its perfection and the corpus of ideas the tension between not digestion. In this paper, to determine this at the same time, pointed out the paradoxical sense of this hidden essence of Western culture is different from traditional Chinese culture, its underlying basis. In his Le Mythe de Sisyphe, A. Camus, an existentialist writer, express by l'absurde his thought about the meaning of human existence. This meaning consists in the indissoluble tension between the human finitude and his idea of ​​Perfection and All . Our article makes those assertions and shows clearly the sense of l'absurde is a hidden nature of the western culture which differentiates this culture from the Chinese traditional culture

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