
Every day he was given the opportunity to find the positive message in this task. However we should consider Sisyphus to be triumphant because he created the meaning for this mundane task. The stone doesn’t do anything, it isn’t for anything, and it’s similarly as futile at the highest point of the slope as at the base.

It doesn’t get any more pointless than pushing a stone up a slope. No one but we can eliminate the state of our own significance. Truth be told, the world is neither absurd nor not-ludicrous – it is vague. In any case, giving up isn’t unavoidable. Despite this redundancy we may be excused for giving up on the task. Here is breakfast time once again, here I am washing my spoon once more. Life isn’t direct, it spirals into the future in a progression of concentric circular segments. If you are being critical you must mention at least one specific error, otherwise your comment will be deleted as unhelpful.Sisyphus helps us to remember the recurrent idea of our work. will not be responsible for any consequences of actions that result from any form of use of any documents on this website.Īdd your own feedback and questions here: You are equally welcome to be positive or negative about any paper but please be polite. In particular, anything that appears to include financial or legal advice or proposed medical treatments should be treated with due caution. Articles hosted may not yet have been verified by peer-review and should be treated as preliminary. is a pre-print repository rather than a journal.

Is much more within his mythological life relevant to That’s the skeleton of this story, but there Reached the top, requiring infinite repetitions withoutĪny reward. Would then roll all the way back down just before they

Roll a giant rock up a mountain in Hades. In Greece was the subject of a unique punishment The somewhat mythological King Sisyphus of Corinth
