In this English language study, which has also been published in multiple languages as a book, the author examines the factors that cause the absurdity of the world and the human life. He searches for the methods to cease or weaken their power and lessen their weight on human consciousness. To do this, he calls forth the works of the most prominent authors of science, literature and art from the Greek ancient times to contemporary times.
To humanize the world means to shape and organize it in a way that benefits and serves the goals of humanity. However, the changing of many details of the world into something that serves the human race faces many serious and heavy challenges. According to the author, the world as a whole has, firstly, humanized elements; secondly, till-this-time not-humanized ones; and, lastly, ones that are impossible or seem to be inherently impossible to be humanized. Civilization and the human being face the biggest problem in these last cases. This study doesn’t include the detailing of the (1) humanized elements of the world or, moreover, those ones that (2) can be humanized but until this time are not humanized;it rather concentrates on those elements that are inherently (3) impossible to humanize, because according to the greatest minds of civilization, these are the elements that make human life absurd. According to science, the reasonings that support that human life is absurd are lined up most plentifully by the authors of the so-called ’absurd drama’. From the line of reasonings, the author focuses on those that have not been contradicted even in the slightest way over thousands of years. He finds four such reasonings: death, the passage of time, the fact that the human being is trapped in its own body and soul, and, finally, that in the world and Universe, newer and newer unknown details and elements continuously and unstoppably appear. The study is about how the greatest minds of humanity made attempts, from the ancient past to modern times, to humanize – and therefore force under the 33 goals and interests of humanity – death, the passage of time, the strong bond to the body and soul, and the continually reborn unknowness of the world and the Universe.
In this book, the author recalls and details more and more interesting procedures of the mastermind. However, there is a sad, final result. Let us quote the closing thought of the study: It cannot be doubted that humanizing the main powers of the absurdity of the world and of human life began by some of the best authors of civilization; however, the victory and the convincing and useful results are far away.
Innovation: turning basic oppositions of philosophy (matter vs. spirit, materialism vs. idealism, possibility of knowledge vs. impossibility of knowledge, and so on) to one ultimate opposition (possibility of humanization of the world vs. impossibility of humanization of the world).
ANDREW R. DAMU