Research Argumentative Essay Outline
Topic: According to Albert Camus, the only life worth living is Absurd. What instead would you say the view of life should be?
Introduction: The paper discusses the idea of insanity that is inherent in human life. The apparent main objective of Camus’ viewpoint is The Absurd. The article talks about insanity as an inevitable part of human nature, marked by pain, death, and lack of purpose.
Thesis: Human existence, marked by pain, death, and lack of significance, is inherently absurd. However, life can become something else because through gratitude and always trying for greatness, one can point out meaning in life.
Body paragraph-1
Topic sentence: People have to find ways to live their lives so that they can live well, even though life seems meaningless.
- Detail 1: people can create their subjective purpose of life (Smith 119).
- Detail 2: Focusing on what one can control result in finding deep value in life
Body paragraph-2
Topic sentence: For a happy life everybody has to work on everything they need
- Detail 1-: If people believe like their lives are worthless, people are wrong (Mlungwana 142).
- Detail 2-: Life worth living is one in which there are enough things of significant meaning (Pérez & Genovesi 294).
Body paragraph -3
Topic sentence: having importance in life does not have to be extraordinary.
- Detail 1– Once we change our beliefs, our aim is changed, and we need to continue working towards them (Thornton 610).
- Detail 2– Successes and efforts are not the only things that make life more meaningful. Life matters as we exist (Hooker et al. 14).
Conclusion
Life can become another thing as one can point out the value of life through humility and continuously finding greatness. Life exists since we are part of an enduring and unknown life-chain both inside and between living creatures. Although life is harsh, sometimes, perseverance brings meaning.
Works Cited
Hooker, Stephanie A., Kevin S. Masters, and Crystal L. Park. “A meaningful life is a healthy life: A conceptual model linking meaning and meaning salience to health.” Review of General Psychology, vol. 22, no. 1, 2018, pp. 11-24.
Consulting a study completed by Hooker et al. 2018, the authors of this article concludes that a meaningful life is a healthy life. The author also completed their study similar to Camus, finding that Successes and efforts are not the only things that make life more meaningful. Life matters as we exist. My purpose in using this research will be to illustrate the meaning of life. The resource is below five years, with authors specialized in general psychology that will provide me with useful arguments.
Mlungwana, Yoliswa. “An African response to absurdism.” South African Journal of Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 2, 2020, pp. 140-152.
In this article, Mlungwana (2020) examines the African response to Camus’s position that the lives of people are absurd. The author explains the Camus position using an ethical perspective on meaning in life. It does seem that while the author of the article has some shortcomings, he did attempt to back up his research with a broader literature review that reflects on the findings on absurdism. This provides me with useful information to support my argument that through gratitude and always trying for greatness, one can point out meaning in life.
Pérez, Edwardo, and Sergio Genovesi. “Death in Black Mirror: How Should We Deal with Our Mortality?.” Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections, 2019, pp. 292-300.
The premise of this article discusses how to deal with the mortality issue. The authors pose a critical question of whether people should embrace the meaning of life or defer it. The authors have experience in the field of philosophy hence providing a useful philosophy of reference that will help me expand my research topic absurd of life.
Smith, Michael. “(A) wake for ‘the Passions of this Earth’: Extinction and the Absurd ‘Ethics’ of Novel Ecosystems.” Cultural Studies Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2019, pp. 119-134.
In this article, smith (2019) examines the absurd ‘morality’ of modern ecosystems extinction. The article is a vital source for several discussions about “unique ecosystems,” based on the work of Albert Camus. The resource is peer-reviewed, and the author is knowledgeable in the cultural studies area. Using this resource is helpful as it offers useful insight into creating a subjective purpose of life. I will use it as a reference to support my position on the topic sentence.
Thornton, Simone. “The educational cost of philosophical suicide: What it means to be lucid.” Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 51, no. 6, 2019, pp. 608-618.
The primary purpose of the article is to portray the meaning of being lucid. The author’s viewpoint aims to present the first real critical analysis of Camus’s position that life is absurd. The article is useful as it will elaborate in detail the concept of Camus on life absurdism.