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Is Life Absurd?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Jonathan Westphal  and
Christopher Cherry
Jonathan Westphal
Affiliation:
University of Kent at Canterbury
Christopher Cherry
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Extract

Thomas Nagel believes, with some existentialists, that life is absurd. We shall criticize his belief, as well as the anodyne he offers.

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Philosophy , Volume 65 , Issue 252 , April 1990 , pp. 199 - 203
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1990

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5 Ibid.

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8 Ibid., 20.

9 Ibid., 22.

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