Is that all there is?

Byline: Michael Smith (1) Keywords: absurd; absurdity; Albert Camus; Joel Feinberg; fulfillment; God; Godot; good; good for; justification; Thomas Nagel; pointless; pointlessness; self-fulfillment; Sisyphus; tragedy; tragic; value; worth Abstract: I take issue with two suggestions of Joel Feinberg's: first, that it is incoherent to suppose that human life as such is absurd, and, second, that a particular human life may be absurd and yet saved from being tragic by being fulfilled. I also argue that human life as such may well be absurd and I consider various responses to this. Author Affiliation: (1) Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1879 Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA Article History: Registration Date: 29/03/2005