Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy
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Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy
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#2also a good reads from Camus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel)
and a quote:
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.”
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#3also a good reads from Camus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel) and a quote: 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 — whe…
actually, this quote is from the beginning of the Myth of Sisyphus :)
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#4“That explains the complete disappearance of compassion in their world populated by aggressive old men”
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#5Albert 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."
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#6Albert 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."
Allow me to translate: "I speak French!"
Re: Albert Camus: Humanism and Tragedy
#7Albert 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."
Allow me to translate: "I speak French!"
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#8The 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.
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#9The 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.
I 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.
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#10The 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.
Philosophy of mind has little to no understanding of consciousness and the will. Most people who have a considered opinion are 'physicalists' who think that the mind is reducible to the physical activity of the brain, but this belief is not based on an especially compelling neurological research programme but on the ontological expectation that all phenomena are reducible to physical processes. That is, they believe the mind must be of this quality because most everything else studied by natural science is.
What the true nature of the mind is - and it may simply lie beyond human understanding - makes no difference to the phenomenological experience of being a first-person subjectivity, and the struggle to live that we all must lead. Do you confront the world without a predetermined purpose? Yes. Then for the existentialists you are radically free and, inescapably, have to choose who you want to be.