He argued that reason, democracy, progress, and respectability were all defining aspects of conventional morality, and that what we should really be concentrating on is the inner passion and animal instincts that provoke us as beings to think and act, and to be truly creative. ... Following in the revolutionary footsteps that Nietzsche laid out in world of philosophical thinking, were two equally, if not more influential ideas called logical empiricism (or logical positivism), and existentialism. ... In response to all of this uncertainty and anxiety another form of philosophical thinking emer...

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In The Myth of Sisyphus Camus focused on the abstract individuals struggle to live life in recognition of the absurd, his theory is evolved in The Plague to focus on a communities struggle with the absurd and the solidarity found in the relationships and emotions between the people. Camus existen...

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