[IronJack]

But Camus also realized that meaninglessness, far from engendering despair, provided the ultimate liberation. If life is meaningless, then the very purpose of living becomes to assign it whatever meaning we want!

See “The Myth of Sisyphus.”

[circlecity]

"But Camus also realized that meaninglessness, far from engendering despair, provided the ultimate liberation. If life is meaningless, then the very purpose of living becomes to assign it whatever meaning we want!"

Which is not meaning at all, merely transitory preference. While ultimately disappoints. The finiteness of death precludes all meaning. Even Sartre acknowledged this when he stated that, for any meaning, finite man must have an infinite reference point. "All is vanity under the sun".

[Diamond]

But Camus also realized that meaninglessness, far from engendering despair, provided the ultimate liberation. If life is meaningless, then the very purpose of living becomes to assign it whatever meaning we want!

How could Cumus derive a universal, objective 'truth' like that from his own subjective, finite experience?