This document provides an overview of the key differences between existentialism and absurdism. Existentialism believes that individuals can create their own subjective meaning through free will and awareness, since the world has no inherent objective meaning. Absurdism holds that humans seek meaning in a universe that is inherently meaningless, creating an absurd contradiction. Examples of existentialist works include Waiting for Godot, while Albert Camus was a founder of the absurdist philosophy. The document also cites sources for further information.

1. Key Difference between
Existentialism Vs Absurdism
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2. Existentialism vs Absurdism

3. This person was referring to
the philosophy of
Existentialism associated
with 20th-century European
philosophers — particularly
John Paul Sartre, who
popularized the term. Some
scholars extend the term
back to Sorin Kierkegaard,
and others extend it as far
back as Socrates.

4. What is
Existentialism
• First, let’s go over what Existentialism is.
Existentialists believe that the world
intrinsically has no objective meaning, but
through a combination of free will,
awareness, and personality responsibility, we
can create our own subjective meaning.
• The basis of Sartre’s Existentialism is the
phrase ‘existence precedes essence,’ meaning
no general account of what it means to be
human can be given, and that meaning can
only be decided and constructed through
existence itself.
• Example:

5. Waiting for Godot

7. What is Absurdism
• According to Absurdism, it’s only natural for humans to seek
out meaning in life. However, conflict occurs when we go to
do so and find the universe is really cold, chaotic, and utterly
devoid of any meaning at all. It’s this contradiction between
our mind’s search for meaning and the reality of nature that
Absurdism’s founder Albert Camus calls ‘The Absurd.’

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9. So for
Examples…
If a cow knew that his higher
purpose was to be eaten, that we
would be not satisfied.
If I knew that we knew that
we were born to die, we could
not ultimately find
contentment.

10. Existentialism vs Absurdism

11. Works cited…
Ben, Thinking Deeply With. “Existentialism vs Absurdism —
Explanations and Key Differences of Each.” Medium, 17 Dec.
2020, thinkingdeeply.medium.com/existentialism-vs-absurdism-
explanations-and-key-differences-of-each-22ae90b4ebde.
“‘Nothing Happens, Nobody Comes, Nobody Goes, It’s Awful!’
Analyze the Sense of Metaphysical Anguish Expressed in Waiting
for Godot. - ENotes.Com.” ENotes, www.enotes.com/homework-
help/nothing-happens-nobody-comes-nobody-goes-its-372483.
Accessed 19 June 2021.

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