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Camus would call Buddhism, and other religions, "philosophical suicide", because you're basically believing in a made-up justification for your existence and what its purpose is. Stoicism is a guide on how you should live your life: stay in the place that was given to you at birth, and be satisfied from it. So Camus would call it "philosophical suicide" too. Camus commands you to accept fully that your life has no pu…
Camus saw the problem (or got close to it) but kept it. He noticed the craving for meaning, noticed the world won't answer it, and then chose to hold on to the craving anyway and call that defiance freedom. That's just suffering with extra steps and rationalizing it. The buddha didn't offer a "justification for existence." He pointed out that the demand for one is the problem (part of it anyway). You crave meaning, t…
Re: The Absurdity of Albert Camus
#101It was very funny to me to learn Nietzsche's critique of 'Nobel Eight fold path to nirvana' as "passive nihilism", and he unironically goes on to prescribe 'will to power'. All western philosophy suffer this need to meaning, individuality and existence. Even those who accept meaningless universe want you to out and make your own little version of it, whatever it maybe, this want/need becomes the root of suffering. IMO Buddhism is the first and final existential philosophy anyone needs to understand.