Abstract

Here I seek to examine Descartes’s arguments for the existence of God in the “Third Meditation” and the “Fifth Meditation” with that of Camus’s concept of the absurd in The Myth of Sisyphus. I will argue that considering the existential skepticism and agnosticism in Camus’s conception of the absurd provides an important contemporary perspective on the question of finding certainty without God (or meaning) and supports Descartes’s concern, that one struggles to have stability or certainty without God.