Vacys Motuzas prieš 1 sekundę Very great video about Camus. Thanks ...

macardona5 prieš 1 mėnesį (redaguota) Camus says everything should be sacrificed for love. But, how can you know that what you are feeling is love? I think love is a concept taken for granted. Like, of course, every body knows how love feels like. What If it is just an illusion, a beautiful feeling that will go away sooner than later? Can we really trust our feelings? Then you throw your whole live down the drain to persue this "love" feeling, only to realize later on that actually your life has become much more miserable. That you were much happier before you took the plunge into "love" . I think the word "love" is usually taken too divine. Like a kind of God, deciding for us, demanding to sacrifice our lifes for it. As an existencialist, one should reflect on the part "love" has in obscuring our aim to freedom.

Cairo Castillo prieš 22 valandas I always thought I agreed the most with Existentialism but there were a few bits and pieces I didn't personally agree with or care for. I'm learning a lot about Absurdism tonight for the first time and I'm just so pleased to know there's an actual "school" of philosophy (If that's what these are..or are they just subjects?...Topics?) that better explains exactly how I feel about this completely illogical existence we have been forced to partake in. I was feeling very suicidal the other day, and I almost considered willingly fooling myself with a "faith" as most people do as a way to avoid despair. But now I'm feeling a deep sense of acceptance. Never thought I'd care this much for philosophy, but here I am. I'm feeling chaotic, but that's life so fuck it.

Antonio Artuso prieš 5 dienas Congratulations for your analysis of Albert Camus' thought. It is the deepest and most correct I ever read and the term "absurdism", new for me, is exact. I studied in a French school in Brazil during all my adolescence, and like many students I worshiped Camus' thought and what I called "existentialism" (which was in fact "absurdism", and what I think is "nihilism". I worshiped Camus was until a little after the 1964 military coup d'État in Brazil. It took some time before I could understand the economic, political and social realities of the world, the very violent class struggle between the working class and the capitalist-imperialist class. This struggle is fundamental until the overthrow of the capitalist-imperialist class and of the dictatorship of the capitalists, the instauration of socialism, and the transformation of society to the gradual elimination of the 2 antagonistic social classes and the withering of the State, as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels forsaw, the communist society. In 1970, I joined a group against torture in Brazil (and in Spain, Portugal, Haiti, Vietnam, in all the dictatorships put in place by the U.S. capitalist-imperialist, neo-colonialist State). I studied Marxism-Leninism and I started understanding that Albert Camus' thought was very limited to the petit-bourgeois intellectuals. For Camus, there is no truth, reality does not lead to one truth, truth is subjective, it is not objective. He fought against fascism in the Resistance against the Nazi occupation of France, but this was not an objective duty. This position of Camus and also of the existentialists like Sartre, is that, according to them, people should no longer believe (1) in religion (since the Enlightment of the 18th century, God is dead, the idea was killed by rationalism, science, understanding that religion is the opium of the people, is used politically to oppress the working class and the nations) or (2) in Marxism (because of the errors of Marxism-Leninism). But the existentialists and Camus (absurdism) reject the class analysis by Marx and Engels, the importance of production, of the modes of production, the successive revolutions throughout the history of mankind to go from (1) primitive communism, to (2) the Ancient mode of production based on slavery in the empires of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Persia, Rome, etc., to (3) the feudal mode of production, to the capitalist mode of production, to (4) socialism (the October Revolution of 1917, was the beginning of the new mode of production. According to Marx and Engels, socialism will gradually put an end to social differences between social classes and will start the withering of the State, ending up with the communist society, without classes therefore without the need of a State, the classless society. Philosophies are always defined by your place in society. Are you a slave or a slaveowner, a feudal lord or a serve, a member of the working class or a capitalist or a petit-bourgeois, a petit-capitalist? Your position in society determines your vision of reality, of the human being, of society. Today, your ideology is either bourgeois (capitalist-imperialist) or petit-bourgeois (small capitalist oriented middle-class person) or an exploited and oppressed member of the working class and of the people of your country). Antonio Artuso - Communist Reconstruction Canada - For a United Front against Fascism and War - pueblo1917@

Living A Life Of Abundance prieš 2 mėnesius 6 Important Guidelines in Life -When you are Alone, mind your Thoughts. -When you are with Friends, mind your Tongue. -When you are Angry, mind your Temper. -When you are with a Group, mind your Behavior. -When you are in Trouble, mind your Emotion. -When God starts blessing you, mind your EGO.

ida loup prieš 2 mėnesius When I watch the videos of Youtubers who explain how to live a better life I really think that everything has been said and wriiten about the meaning and purpose of the human being. Everyone parrots what has been said since long whether Camus, Marcus Aurelius etc... People have always been aware of the absurdity of life but saying that life is absurd is meaningless because It's the human soul that is absurd, stupid. The world is absurd because humans are an absurd species.

Mitchell McKain prieš 3 savaites (redaguota) I have been heavily influenced by Albert Camus, from The Stranger, The Plague, and the Myth of Sisyphus. But it never led me to any philosophy of Absurdism. I would consider such a philosophy absurd. Just as I considered the claim that there is no such thing as meaning to be a meaningless assertion. Perhaps I should mention that I was not raised in Christianity but highly critical of the Christian establishment. So that part of Camus' books was nothing new or difficult for me. So what was my takeaway from Camus: The Stranger -- that we can find value in the most difficult experiences. The Plague -- that the traditional Christian response to the problem of suffering was inadequate. The Myth of Sisyphus - that we can find value in a life lived in defiance of an evil god. I came to the conclusion that the fundamental existentialist faith is that life is worth living. I certainly embraced (and continue to do so) the Sartre maxim that existence precedes essence which essentially means that we find or invent our own meaning of life. In fact I would claim that this is part of what this phenomenon of life is all about.

SC prieš 2 mėnesius Camus was brilliant, however, he misconstrued hormone driven passion and desire for love. This contradicts his principle of not making life decisions to please other people as in this case our hormones dictate that we should choose passion over moral.

Sajed Motevallian prieš 2 mėnesius Except the last lesson (choose love), all lessons are real gems. The reason is that 99% of the time, we mistake many other things for love (e.g. dependence, obsession, trade, showing off, defense mechanisms against the fear of death, etc.) and choosing that thing is going to be a real disaster. I suggest this lesson instead: "Choose facts". This is a fact that if you don't have a source of income, you can't make a living and pay your bills. So your "love" for your partner or spouse most probably doesn't fix the problem. Choose a fact-based life and the so-called "absurd' can't get to you.

Eric John prieš 1 mėnesį (redaguota) Fantastic video, thank you. Looking back, Camus was clearly influenced by the Stoics, and also by Socrates who said all evil is ignorance. Finally, I'm not sure he studied Eastern philosophy, but his emphasis on not striving for some illusory happiness in the future - but being content in the present moment - is absolutely Buddhism and Taoism.