ABSTRACT

Existential absurdity, refers to the idea that existence is both meaningless and purposeless, and that there is no rationality for which life, as it currently is, should be lived. Albert Camus, is the th single philosopher in the 20 century who distinctively discoursed this theme, making it so vivid to the point that it became almost synonymous with his name. Faced with the problem of futile human struggles in a meaningless world, Camus in want of a solution proposed revolt with which he meant a deviant attitude towards the meaningless life. My concern here would thus be to demonstrate Camus' betrayal of logical reasoning in his solution to the absurd existence. I argue that Camus, while trying to demonstrate the obvious meaninglessness of human existence, failed to maintain a logical consistency in his flow of thought. Thus, showing deviance for the fundamental logical principle of non-contradiction—the principle that nothing can both be and not be at the same time. I conclude that, Camus' proposed solution to the absurd life is infact a negation of logical necessity as evident in his simultaneous assertion of two contradictory propositions of the categorical forms Aand O which are never both true at the same time.