An area of existentialist philosophy is absurdism which considers the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the inability to find these with any certainty. The work of French nobel prize winning writer and philosopher Albert Camus' forms the source material for this episode, specifically his most well known essay The Myth of Sisyphus. 

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Absurdism
Albert Camus
The myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
Band of Brothers hopeless speech

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