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Question: Alienation is an important concept for both Hegel and for all of the Existentialist covered in our reading. With Marx we are alienated from satisfaction in our work, for Hegel we are alienated from the meaning of our existence, for Kierkegaard alienation leads to despair over the hypocrisy of others, for de Beauvoir, after thousands of years of suppression by males, women are alienated from a true understanding of what it means to be a woman. And as we see with the video here, Existentialist Albert Camus found life to be absurd leading to a life of meaningless actions, as with Sisyphus punishment of an eternity spent pushing the rock up the hill. To this issue, Camus, in his version of the story, asks, in the end can we imagine Sisyphus happy?

To answer this question, give a general explanation of the principles of Existentialism first, and then form an argument as to whether you believe Sisyphus could find happiness pushing that rock.