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Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy
- jeisc 7y agoalso a good reads from Camus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel) and a quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29516-there-is-but-one-truly-serious-philosophical-problem-and-that https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29516-there-is-but-one-trul... “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”
- deninho 7y agoactually, this quote is from the beginning of the Myth of Sisyphus :)
- XzetaU8 7y agoRelated "Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | Existentialism, The Absurd & Escape | Philosophy Core Concepts" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKJpmvum6ko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKJpmvum6ko
- ikeyany 7y agoI also enjoyed reading The Plague. "You can't understand. You're using the language of reason, not of the heart; you live in a world of abstractions."
- thom 7y ago“That explains the complete disappearance of compassion in their world populated by aggressive old men”
- nbabitskiy 7y agoAlbert Camus' nobel prize acceptance speech is as good, as his best novels. Read it! "Il me reste à vous remercier , du fond du cœur ,et à vous faire publiquement en témoignage personnel de gratitude, la même et ancienne promesse de fidélité que chaque artiste vrai , chaque jour, se fait à lui-même dans le silence."
- javajosh 7y agoAllow me to translate: "I speak French!"
- nbabitskiy 7y agoexcuse me! https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/speech/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1957/camus/spee...
- inakarmacoma 7y ago"It remains for me to thank you from the bottom of my heart and to make before you publicly, as a personal sign of my gratitude, the same and ancient promise of faithfulness which every true artist repeats to himself in silence every day."
- sysbin 7y agoThe best thing I came to realize in life is that free will is an illusion and simply it doesn’t exist. Thus, life has never been worth living because we’re simply forced like a victim sent to prison and whatever we experience is not really our own. Good or evil is simply an illusion as well because of the preceding. I wish I had been educated about this young.
- lolptdr 7y agoI don't understand. You say you can't experience anything that you own, but you are making a choice to decide that you can't have a choice. This is a circular dependency of logic.
- sysbin 7y agoEverything is just cause & effect. It’s impossible to make a choice or decision that’s truly one’s own. Nobody can make a choice or decision without being effected by what encompasses them and with all the external forces being inflicted upon them as well. Even a death like suicide is thus a natural death when it happens because it couldn’t have been different. People assume it could have been different by desiring everything was a choice of our own but in reality we don’t have choice that’s our own.
- bigbluedots 7y agoHow did you decide whether or not to post this comment?
- sysbin 7y agoI didn't, all the preceding events (external forces exerted upon me) made it so.
- bigbluedots 7y agoDoes it give you comfort to hold that view? i.e. if everything is completely deterministic then you cannot be responsible for the consequences of your actions.