Can you summarize Thomas Nagel's The Absurd?

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I'm really having trouble understanding it and i need to for my philosophy class. Please help!!

Answer 1

basically it seems he is saying that it is our perceptions that cause us to feel things are absurd, when they dont fit into our concepts of what reality should be
http://scott.brisbane.id.au/philosophy/the_absurd.html

appears to be a good summary article, and might help you,

Answer 2

Thomas Nagel The Absurd

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Can you summarize Thomas Nagel's The Absurd?
I'm really having trouble understanding it and i need to for my philosophy class. Please help!!

Answer 5

Things are important and meaningful only from within an internal subjective standpoint. Nothing is important or meaningful, however, from the most external objective standpoint—the standpoint of the universe. We cannot ignore the external objective standpoint because our being able to take up that standpoint is (part of) what makes us persons. Since there is an incongruity or contradiction between these two standpoints, life is absurd.