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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
It is not absurd just because you say it is. Life exists because it is possible for it to exist. That is not absurd.
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I gave reasons as to why life is absurd:
1) Death renders our earthly strivings insignificant. (Camus' theory)
2) In the grand cosmic sense, our lives and strivings are insignificant already, yet we take them quite seriously. The discrepancy creates an absurd situation. (Nagel's theory)
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Every man must be rational at all times. You are using reason right now. Don't you get it? Socrates never claimed that rationality was the end. That would be a logical absurdity itself. It's simply that reason is the best, if not only, way to meet the set end, and therefore we should strive to be rational.
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And what "set end" is that, praytell?