Editing Meaning of life (section)

====Absurdism====
{{Main|Absurdism}}
{{Quote box |quote="... in spite of or in defiance of the whole of existence he wills to be himself with it, to take it along, almost defying his torment. For to hope in the possibility of help, not to speak of help by virtue of the absurd, that for God all things are possible—no, that he will not do. And as for seeking help from any other—no, that he will not do for all the world; rather than seek the help he would prefer to be himself—with all the tortures of hell if so it must be."|source=[[Søren Kierkegaard]], ''[[The Sickness Unto Death]]''<ref name="KierkegaardSuD">{{Cite book|last=Kierkegaard|first=Søren|author-link=Søren Kierkegaard|title=The Sickness Unto Death|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189042|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=1941|isbn=978-1-4486-7502-9}}</ref> |width=30% |align=right}}
In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony between the individual's search for meaning and the apparent meaninglessness of the universe. As beings looking for meaning in a meaningless world, humans have three ways of resolving the dilemma. Kierkegaard and Camus describe the solutions in their works, ''[[The Sickness Unto Death]]'' (1849) and ''[[The Myth of Sisyphus]]'' (1942):
* [[Suicide]] (or, "escaping existence"): a solution in which a person simply ends one's own life. Both Kierkegaard and Camus dismiss the viability of this option.
* [[Religious]] belief in a [[transcendence (religion)|transcendent]] realm or being: a solution in which one believes in the existence of a reality that is beyond the Absurd, and, as such, has meaning. Kierkegaard stated that a belief in anything beyond the Absurd requires a non-rational but perhaps necessary religious acceptance in such an intangible and empirically unprovable thing (now commonly referred to as a "[[leap of faith]]"). However, Camus regarded this solution as "philosophical suicide".
* Acceptance of the Absurd: a solution in which one accepts and even embraces the Absurd and continues to live in spite of it. Camus endorsed this solution (notably in his 1947 allegorical novel ''The Plague'' or ''La Peste''), while Kierkegaard regarded this solution as "demoniac madness": "''He rages most of all at the thought that eternity might get it into its head to take his misery from him!''"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kierkegaard |first=Søren |author-link=Søren Kierkegaard |title=The Sickness Unto Death |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.189042 |publisher=Princeton University Press |date=1941 |isbn=978-1-4486-7502-9}}, Part I, Ch. 3.</ref>