Essays on Sisyphus

Alienation involves isolating a certain group of people by being indifferent and discriminative. This paper focuses on an article that provides a detailed account of suffering that North Koreans underwent through the rule of Kim- Jong- il and his current predecessor Kim- Jong- un through the eyes of the Myth of Sisyphus, a compilation of essays by Albert Camus. I chose the article by Tom Phillips about a refugee who escaped the inhumanity in North Korea because refugees are some of the people who face great alienation. Also, through Yeonmi Park’s experiences, a refugee, described in this article, ...

In Orlando Patterson’s The Children Of Sisyphus, the biggest problem is poverty, destitution, and poor living conditions. The situation is so bad that people eat from the dump site, and there is no access to clean water, food or good housing. Patterson highlights the plight of the slum dwellers in the downtown Jamaica, Sisyphus, showing the inevitability that the residents find themselves in, with grinding poverty that reduces their humanness to the level of scavengers. To Patterson, the slum dwellers represent a collapse of government institutions and the threat of discrimination on race. Noteworthy, it is the racism ...

Two of the most important existential philosophers have been Albert Camus, well known for both his novels and his philosophy, and Jean Paul Sartre, who, is aligned with the ideas of existentialism more than any other philosopher. In addition to sharing some ideas about existentialism (although both men also developed very different systems of this philosophy), both thinkers were atheists, and developed their systems of philosophy, from their belief in a world, or a universe without god. For Camus, the absence of god was one of the reasons why man could find the nature of existence meaningless, and his ...