Albert Camus says “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” We hope that you enjoyed this video and for more videos to help you find success and happiness using ancient philosophical wisdom, don’t forget to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching.
So Albert Camus wants us to fight for what we believe is right while being amoral? What a contradiction... why is there no explanation or discussion on this topic?
@@okuphelele9585 because intellectuals enjoy projecting blue screen errors. The same old question: is the statement "I AM LYING" true or false? If true its false. If false it true. Blue screen error!
@@SmokingChristian yes, we need To be informed about everything, even that we need to be inform. More food for thought. Some people embrace knowledge, some store it up like treasure, some package it to sell.
To the *worthwhile person* seeing this, your dream is not dead. Don’t allow the past and current pains and hurts stop and define you. You’re more than a conqueror. Rise up and put yourself together. Keep pushing your future depends on it. I wish you all the best in life ❤️.
When you are free and don’t do tedious work; You feel that way, I’ll call it more privileged than being somewhere else; stop using “our” as scientist, philosophers, etc are also somewhere else most of the time too but they contribute to materialistic reality more than you ever will.
@@Pyasa.shaitan Could you tell us what contributions you have made to what you term as "materialistic reality?" You write as if you know her really well. Her candid comment did not require the vitriol that spewed forth from your mouth.
@@logannaidoo1 I was like her and know many like her but then I realized I’m in poverty and need to work. So I meet more people like myself, they on the contrary were thinking to survive and not living in a fantasy world of hyper optimism & anything can happen if you work hard. When you work minimum wage jobs as the majority does, you need to pay the rent or you’ll go homeless, you need buy stress relieving drugs from dangerous people when your government is jacking everything as opioids, these thoughts go away. I don’t wanna make any contributions to this shitty society, where majority of people like her want to change the world without even question the root cause to all problems “Capitalism”. Because they are raised with too many privileges and believe everyone regardless of there socioeconomic situations should act like her. Her struggles by working in a bank are more than a person surviving on a minimum wage alone in a world where human value is directly determined by there productive outlook, we are not free. That’s all because of blind privileged people like her.
@@Pyasa.shaitan Jesus, that was a completely uncalled for comment that is another example of some pretentious asshole with too much time on his hands making it harder for everybody else to have a normal discussion online. Can't you go troll a chatroom if you want to take your offline frustrations on everybody else?
I am 51 years old and in watching this I remember reading Albert Camus’ plays in high school. My philosophy now is this: yes I’m 51, but I’m just getting started. I state that because most of my family lives to be between 85 and 100 years old. I’m not the kind of woman in her 50s that’s going to just continually sit at home and think about what used to be. I’m focused on who I’m becoming and I’m enjoying every moment of that.
It's odd isn't it life spending years in the past thinking about suicide because my mum abandoned me was hard to cope with but fast forward to today glad to be alive having a purpose to humanity helping others help themselves is a saving grace,thank you universe ❤
@@peterstankiewicz2474 We appreciate things that other don't the simple things Peter as you know it hurts but as time goes by and self healing is applied it hurts a lot less. Merry Xmas and hopefully you'll have a Happy New Year 🎆🎄🎉
This couldn't have come to me at a better moment. I've recently overcome a two month, midlife crisis now at 35, after I lost the core motivation to my workaholism, and the burn out had reduced my inhibition towards apathy. My whole life has been pretty smooth surface wise, but I've always been neglected spiritually, given tools, but never shown how to use them. Being raised in a faith based religion, I took a lot of damage when I was young, assuming everyone I would meet had the same general level of respect that was instilled into me, particularly in dating and having the shattering realization that faith in marriage is not the direction the majority of our society is headed down. All but one of highschool friends self deleted, and the only reason I probably did not join them is my faith, but as that got whittled down by my observations of those around me, the more I could see the value in my friend's level of escapism. In the end, i have not found much value in the mode of how life should go, that we are given by society, I went off on my own journey for the past 17 years and have suffered through poverty to chase a passion of understanding agriculture. My original plan all those years ago was simply to teach people how to grow food, but I got hooked into the chase of the grind in each season and lost that core component, as well as the component of growing food so I could share it with my family, and even start one. These are areas I now put priority on, as I am not longer making decisions based on efficiency in production, but instead in aesthetics of place, as my surroundings have the appearance of a excel spread sheet made manifest, but I need to make it more inviting so moments can be enjoyed among them. I am learning new skills before skills become harder to learn in old age, so I may have more tools to teach with, primarily through art. Ultimately my new goal and motivation is to grow more food, by teaching more people to grow food, instead of myself growing more. Plus a teacher always learns more form their student, than the student takes away from the teacher.
Reply to Patchwork Gardens : You sound very interesting and definitely well spoken and caring. I hope you can find peace in this world. There are a million ways you can live your life. Please consider the many ways you can change your situation and know that this human existence ism precious. I came to Chamus through my spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hahn. I strongly recommend his teaching, he is a Buddhist zen master but his teachings are non secular. I would recommend his book called The Art of Living.
"For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still." ~~Albert Camus, The Stranger, Part II, Chapter V
I’m lucky to have taken Camus philosophy in college 41 years ago, this young genius words and wisdom is responsible for many positive thought provoking afternoons. In an exercise that defies logic bordering in absurdism, he dies in a car crash @ age 46, I wonder how many more masterpieces he would have written. Love ❤️ this man, he definitely has had a great positive lasting effect in my life. His legacy ensures his immortality, proud to have all of his works and share them with family and friends.
Decades ago I adjusted my life to live in the present and do several other things I found out later philosophers said were good ways to live. I did it only because it made sense to me. Today I live as a hermit and have for 3 years. The issue with living as philosophers say is 99.9% of people don't. They talk a lot about wanting to live these ways, but don't. When you do live this way it puts you out of step with almost everyone else. You drift further and further from those around you. Be careful about following philosophers. Make sure you actually want that path and where it leads. I'm happy I did, but I don't think it's for everyone.
When you live in the present you are most in touch with the universe how it wants you to be...Just like Freddie Mercury said about songwriting...If it's planned it's boring. Live freely and with no regrets!! It makes you the person you're suppose to be.
This really hit home for me. I knew of Camus, but haven't yet studied his work. Be it similar life choices, or pathways of thought and action, I swear to you that these philosophic ideas of his mirror my own, almost to a fault. I'm in my early Autumn Days, and have questioned my choices in life from time to time, but after watching this, I believe I have found a common spirit that resides in myself, and it might be the spirit that inhabited the body of Camus. I'll have to place Jean Baudrillard on pause, and go back to Albert Camus for the time being. It's good to know that I'm not as alone as I thought. Thank you for opening my eyes to him, Philosophy for Life.
@@luisbolano8325 He's on my list! I just finished a few of Tolstoy's works, and they blew my mind! The Kreutzer Sonata, was so good I read it again as soon as I finished it.
@@AvadoNMod I would like to accept this Nobel Prize on behalf of all those that commented and upvoted my original comment. "Y'all da real MVP's" - Albert Einstein
All facts, this was the realization I came to and had to make peace that I wasted so much time, living in the past, instead of living in the present. I have always lived a rebel life, not caring on what society deemed "appropriate" however my kind, generous nature attracted the worst parasites who took advantage, until I learned discernment and had to let go of feeling used and abused. Now living in the present is so freeing.
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As stated in materials on the subject of chaos magick, "Nothing is true and everything is permitted." Why settle for someone else's notions of what the universe and life are really all about, or sink into despair at the utter meaningless of it all? Why not just rejoice in this absurdity and blaze forth your own trail. I needed this video tonight!
The Rebel is a book that made a great impression on me and I read it every few years. I don't claim to completely understand it but I think I did pretty well for someone who never made it to high school. It seems to express the need for rebels in various positions in life or else it begins to stagnate and regress. My favourite passage comes on the first page where Camus writes: The rebel slave says yes and no simultaneously. I tend to edit out the word 'slave' whenever I use the quote. It's still a valid quote without the word. Another Camus quote (although I don't know where it comes from) is: In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. It's a beautiful and inspiring quote .
Mr Google says: Camus: "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."At noon, on the half-sandy slopes, strewn with heliotropes like a foam that the furious waves of the last few days had left behind in their retreat, I gazed at the sea, gently rising and falling as if exhausted, and quenched two thirsts that cannot be long neglected if all one’s being is not to dry up, the thirst to love and the thirst to admire. For there is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misery. This is because blood and hatred lay bare the heart itself; the long demand for justice exhausts even the love that gave it birth. In the clamor we live in, love is impossible and justice not enough. That is why Europe hates the daylight and can do nothing but confront one injustice with another. In order to prevent justice from shriveling up, from becoming nothing but a magnificent orange with a dry, bitter pulp, I discovered one must keep a freshness and a source of joy intact within, loving the daylight that injustice leaves unscathed, and returning to the fray with this light as a trophy. Here, once more, I found an ancient beauty, a young sky, and measured my good fortune as I realized at last that in the worst years of our madness the memory of this sky had never left me. It was this that in the end had saved me from despair. I had always known that the ruins of Tipasa were younger than our dry-docks or our debris. In Tipasa, the world is born again each day in a light always new. Oh light! The cry of all the characters in classical tragedy who come face to face with their destinies. I knew now that their final refuge was also ours. In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa (1953)
@@dfvm8945 My Goodness, so much Beauty in such misery...I guess realizing that is the way to accepting the conditions (desired or not), which life forces on us.
Thank you. I was not aware that Camus´ philosophy was so similar to my own. It is comforting that your attitude towards life, honed over many decades, is aligned with that of well-known and respected thinkers.
Camus does not believe in hope or in its “cousin,” regret. If we are to say that regret is futile because it anchors us to the past and thus removed from the present, we must acknowledge the same villainy in hope and in the future to which it is connected. All that is certain is the moment in which we live so our rebellion can only exist there. Yes, one can be absurd in any profession, but Camus specifies the importance and the primacy of creation in the face of inevitable and unpredictable destruction. This can be as vast as actually creating a work of art or simply creating the meanings and outlooks of our daily lives however we see fit, on the condition that we consciously face the absurd in every moment.
3:45 אתה בוחר איך חייך ישפיעו עליך. בעזרת כך שאם תסתכל על הטוב ולא על הרע 4:30 Use your obstacle as a tool for good 8:55 Give meaning to yourself by doing everything intensively. Maximizing your time. Aim to be the best. That's a meaning as well. And stay the best as long as you willing to do it.
My favorite philosopher. A writer of startling original thoughts and stunning prose style. I have a shrine to him on my bookshelf. (Nevertheless ... our heroes have feet of clay, as Lottman's biography shows.) Thank you for your lovely lecture!
I am 60 now, My Children are 24 and 23 , trying to pass any of my Hard fought Knowledge onto them , is like smashing my head against a brick wall......lol...
The best thing you can do is to love them and let them learn from their own experiences. However well intentioned you are, you will always be seen as an oppressor. I spent years resisting my overbearing parents. Some of what they said and believed was the sme as what I came to believe, but much of what they said was wrong or not appropriate. If they ask for advice, you can give it. Keep in mind you may not be always right, or that what feels right for you may not be right for them.
I was born not far from where he was born in eastern algeria n I discovered at early age his works at my primary school library which become later my bible . Repose en paix, tonton Albert.
Reading a lot of the comments below, it struck me that given the age and circumstance of Camus' death, one can only hope to be lucky in life. It seems that despair is a direct result of, as Camus put it, undergoing the experience of bad luck. Life is such a fickle mistress whose whims can change a person's life in a heartbeat - for ill or benefit. Accepting this absurd fact is perhaps key to living a full life. Great video synopsis of his philosophy. Thanks. X
The video and message are very well done. I applaud you. The philosophy [Absurdism] is literally a carbon copy of Stoicism, simply rebranded. That's how I heard it in my head. Just the same, I enjoyed it.
Thank you! Wow, it's absurd I haven't heard of Absurdism. This was preaching to the choir the whole way through. Hilarious, entertaining to boot. I'll be showing people this.
I had read Calmu and thought his absurdism is deeply pessimistic but this discourse not only helped me to understand Calmu better and almost fully,it helped me in fighting deep depression which has emanated from the realisation that life is essentially meaningless.Thanks.
I’m 75 and at age 50 I lived in New York where I was born . I had never lived anywhere else though being descended from puertorican parents, I had learned of my culture and visited the island at age 23 and about 5 more times till moving to Puerto Rico in 2000. I made the drastic decision to move permanently my only son at age 25 took his life. I had no family left in NY and decided it would be too lonely and painful to continue there . Though I live far from the family left in PR i,ve continued living by my own in a senior condo, for 15 yrs now. It’s very lifeless and poor, I only receive social security and it barely covers my basic expenses. I’ve made the best of it- even had a small business for a short while. hosted a tourism catamaran and was a sales rep for a cigar company. This all happened from 50 to 62 yrs old. Such a long story but to say that I never gave up hope and each day I would open the door of my rental and decided to make the best of each day. So Mr Camus was correct with his philosophy of living the present. That’s what I did. Thank you for reading.
I'm 46 and for you to suggest I'm in the "autumn season of my life" or that "I don't adhere to beauty standards like I once did" when I feel like I'm just getting started doesn't exactly make me want to turn to more of your philosophy oh happiness lol. Camus on the other hand I will read more about.
Leading a life of constant hunger forces me to live in the present. I’m too hungry to be depressed over the past and anxious about the future. Also, hunger sharpens my awareness and offers me a healthy dose of detachment from societal norms.
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To me existentialism, nihilism, and absurdism, are all basically the same type of philosophy, unless you want to split hairs in fine tuning differences. I’m in total agreement that the world we live in is absurd, and without any intrinsic meaning, other than my own personal meaning and perspective. In other words, just accept things the way they are, being skeptical, and agnostic about all things that can never be explained. It’s of the outmost importance to be authentic to one self at all times, without being defined by the wishes of anyone else.
Existentialism and Absurdism are not nihilism. Nihilism comes after seeing the meaningless of existence and choosing social and mental suicide while being unwilling to take the final step. Absurdism and existentialism each give their own ways of overcoming that lack of absolute meaning inherent in life. Nihilism does no such thing.
Sad that he died the year of my birth but so glad to read his words 👍👍👍 strange really as Im not really a book fan but I'm changing as I get old so thanks Albert 📖👌
Living life to the fullest means not confining a person in their home at all times w/o exploring leisure activities that can assist them in blowing off steam creatively!
My thoughts of acceptance atm.. Is we would never die.. Then LIFE would be a meaningless Lie! I believe in via dolorosa. Acceptance has at least helped me during these harsh times. Cheers from Finland ..cold today, freezy wind. Lots ov clothes needed. Tomorrow never knows ;) I love and respect it
Many of us today have had this crossroad thrust on us willy nilly and some have lost what they assumed was the meaning to their lives. Whether their job, their church, their family and friends, their plans....nothing is the same as before 2020. Many have committed suicide or overdosed without intending it...others have glued themselves to screens. So I wanted to share an insight. First, I'm not Matthew...due to a housefire, the computer says I am; but it's wrong. Camus would love that. I'm Deanna, his mother. I was a mother and then caregiver to my husband all my adult life...and I was a devout Catholic...those shaped life. Children grew up, I cared for grandchildren. Then 2020 and a housefire, my husband's death (not covid), and church closings. In short, a familiar story. I began taking my 3 remaining dogs for drives and runs at the cemetery...they are not polite urban dogs. I wonder what drugs people are giving their pets because mine have never been such automatons on leashes as most are. For most Americans, this seems like a waste of time and gas. But I learned...we drive through neighborhoods I never knew existed, like delivery vans do. I smile at passersby and the black people wave and smile but the white people never do. Odd...they have not been African for 250 years but they still consider it an act of hostility to ignore a Howdy Do. Spending my small Social Security on this and sewing my clothes would be hell to Hillary Clinton and such people....but times have given absurd living a life worth living. Suicide OR have a cup of coffee and go on from there. Camus said that was the choice. The meaning of life is already a given....life itself.
What really matters in the end ultimately is survival. In this universe, complex life is scarce and unlikely and thus valuable and meaningful in itself. Survival is what matters but should be for survival for longer term.
Until my 20-21, I read all important works of A. Camus, and I was deeply impressed by him. But today, after 40 years, I do not think the same about the philosophical ideas of Camus, like I did when I was in my twenties. Because, I think the life and its meaning cannot be seperated; I mean, the meaning of life is an inseparable part of human life, there are always meanings in life. Simply because, being alive is a meaning. In other words, absolute meaninglesness starts with the end of life, and it belongs to death. If the life would be meaningless like Camus defined, in this meaningless and purposeless world, it would never be possible to find our own meaning in life. As a matter of fact, - not to be able to find meaning in life - is undefined, it changes from person to person. What is the dose of meaning in life? Do every single human being need the same amount of meaning in life, in order not to commit suicide? What dose of meaning makes a human very happy, or what dose of meaninglesness leads a human to commit suicide?
I doubt if we could really achieve "acceptance"...you might convince yourself that you accept reality as it is without questioning...but at the back of your mind, existential questions will keep knocking. Even acceptance is escaping. If faith is escaping, then it at least has some answers. Acceptance has no answers at all
Thank s for this video' an opening to new horizon of life and real unique meaning of path of life but of course man cannot live alone he need the universe.
Being in the moment is where I want to be most of the time…..slipping into absurdism is where I find myself occasionally… what a weird concept to ponder!
In order to find meaning in life, you also need to find people that affirm your beliefs and actions. That can be good or bad however. You can find meaning in acts of violence if you hang with racists, or by acts of generosity if you hang with most Christians. So finding “meaning” alone is not enough to make life truly satisfying and enjoyable.
A great video, thanks. Camus strikes me as a closet idealist who, while believing that the meaning of life is to fight for goodness, fails to unpack the all-too-human ethical conflicts that "goodness" embraces. Does a worker quit work to reject workplace injustice, or does he remain to feed to feed his family? I need ethical tools! Time for a cup of coffee.
Learn to live in the moment🌟 such a great advice! Talking about faith, I don't think faith defies rationality. I used to be a skeptic before I found that Christianity is highly rational and could satisfy my intellectual needs. Please read C.S. Lewis' argument in Mere Christianity as an introduction (if you're skeptics). And obviously, Bible is a must-read.
I wake up most mornings feeling I live in a horrible world that makes less and less sense. Then I go fix some coffee and put together a meal, and I'm simply moving on, doing what I can. I don't think you can ignore the horror of living. Most people I know live in a fantasy world. Happiness is a big house and a big car. It is much easier to be mindless. Marketing provides people with a comfort zone.
i hope this philosophy brings you some peace as it had for me, considering we think in a similar fashion. stick around brother. experience the absurd world while holding onto the meaning that keeps you alive.
Philosophically true to a point! No one can predict the future when it comes to health, nature, and political views of the world. STAY true to thy self and acturulazilation will follow, living a healthy and holdlistic lifestyle. MAX 🌏👍🙏❤💯🌻💙🙏👍
I was taught that the 1957 Nobel prize was for the work done on the underground newspapers of WW2 Paris. Camus wrote for and edited the Resistance journal Combat.
I was learning and doing, that is why I was looking up all the home office equipment, I wanted my half of the phone call to be as perfect as it could be because I knew my script would be the only variable I could control while making cold calls to potential new clients. I just wanted to be the middleman and get paid a commission for signing up great contractors to help others
Albert Camus says “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
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That is who man is. Lost! Like this philosophy of absurdity is.
Where is the chaos he's talking about, other than in his mind.
So Albert Camus wants us to fight for what we believe is right while being amoral? What a contradiction... why is there no explanation or discussion on this topic?
@@okuphelele9585 because intellectuals enjoy projecting blue screen errors.
The same old question: is the statement "I AM LYING" true or false?
If true its false.
If false it true.
Blue screen error!
@@SmokingChristian yes, we need To be informed about everything, even that we need to be inform. More food for thought.
Some people embrace knowledge, some store it up like treasure, some package it to sell.
Thank you Team
To the *worthwhile person* seeing this, your dream is not dead. Don’t allow the past and current pains and hurts stop and define you. You’re more than a conqueror. Rise up and put yourself together. Keep pushing your future depends on it. I wish you all the best in life ❤️.
Oh yes blind positivity love it
@Mad koala, it’s not blind positivity. It’s personal accountability. Read Camus a little more carefully.
Merry Christmas ☃️🎄 We have a chance for a new beginning in every single day❣️ Happy New Year ❤️🎉
Which is better - the philosophy of Camus or Marcus Aurellius
@@JA-mn1en same thing different language
So much of our time is spent thinking about being elsewhere. It is a virtue to accept that there is no where else to be
When you are free and don’t do tedious work; You feel that way, I’ll call it more privileged than being somewhere else; stop using “our” as scientist, philosophers, etc are also somewhere else most of the time too but they contribute to materialistic reality more than you ever will.
@@Pyasa.shaitan Could you tell us what contributions you have made to what you term as "materialistic reality?" You write as if you know her really well. Her candid comment did not require the vitriol that spewed forth from your mouth.
@@logannaidoo1
I was like her and know many like her but then I realized I’m in poverty and need to work. So I meet more people like myself, they on the contrary were thinking to survive and not living in a fantasy world of hyper optimism & anything can happen if you work hard.
When you work minimum wage jobs as the majority does, you need to pay the rent or you’ll go homeless, you need buy stress relieving drugs from dangerous people when your government is jacking everything as opioids, these thoughts go away.
I don’t wanna make any contributions to this shitty society, where majority of people like her want to change the world without even question the root cause to all problems “Capitalism”. Because they are raised with too many privileges and believe everyone regardless of there socioeconomic situations should act like her. Her struggles by working in a bank are more than a person surviving on a minimum wage alone in a world where human value is directly determined by there productive outlook, we are not free. That’s all because of blind privileged people like her.
@@Pyasa.shaitan Jesus, that was a completely uncalled for comment that is another example of some pretentious asshole with too much time on his hands making it harder for everybody else to have a normal discussion online. Can't you go troll a chatroom if you want to take your offline frustrations on everybody else?
Wherever you go, there you are.
I am 51 years old and in watching this I remember reading Albert Camus’ plays in high school. My philosophy now is this: yes I’m 51, but I’m just getting started. I state that because most of my family lives to be between 85 and 100 years old. I’m not the kind of woman in her 50s that’s going to just continually sit at home and think about what used to be. I’m focused on who I’m becoming and I’m enjoying every moment of that.
You go girl!
That is a great attitude. Age is just a number anyway. What matters most is your physical and mental well being. Enjoy your life to the fullest..👍💪😃
That my belief too Artist.
I would love to talk to you ms.51 probably 52 now are you married??
My vibs like your vibs🤔☺🤗
@Gerald Rhule Gerald, the Rizzly bear over here!
It's odd isn't it life spending years in the past thinking about suicide because my mum abandoned me was hard to cope with but fast forward to today glad to be alive having a purpose to humanity helping others help themselves is a saving grace,thank you universe ❤
Xo✌💛🌞💞
I'm Tesla, go away you imposter!
Congratulations on fighting your demons. Also your comment was very hearth warming hope giving. Thank god you're present in this world 🤗.
I know what it's like to be abandoned. Fight on bro !!
@@peterstankiewicz2474 We appreciate things that other don't the simple things Peter as you know it hurts but as time goes by and self healing is applied it hurts a lot less.
Merry Xmas and hopefully you'll have a Happy New Year 🎆🎄🎉
Albert Camus: How to live in the present
Me: Save to *watch later*
🤣🤣🤣
There’s a lot of truth in that 🤣
Clever!!🤣 Made us laugh....perhaps you did make the best use of the present moment🤔😁
same!😊
I did the same too but now I’ve come to watch it and did! Maybe there’s hope for me.😬
"The depressed live in the past, the fearful live in the future, and those who are at peace live in the present." - Lao Tzu (If my memory serves) -
This couldn't have come to me at a better moment. I've recently overcome a two month, midlife crisis now at 35, after I lost the core motivation to my workaholism, and the burn out had reduced my inhibition towards apathy. My whole life has been pretty smooth surface wise, but I've always been neglected spiritually, given tools, but never shown how to use them. Being raised in a faith based religion, I took a lot of damage when I was young, assuming everyone I would meet had the same general level of respect that was instilled into me, particularly in dating and having the shattering realization that faith in marriage is not the direction the majority of our society is headed down. All but one of highschool friends self deleted, and the only reason I probably did not join them is my faith, but as that got whittled down by my observations of those around me, the more I could see the value in my friend's level of escapism.
In the end, i have not found much value in the mode of how life should go, that we are given by society, I went off on my own journey for the past 17 years and have suffered through poverty to chase a passion of understanding agriculture. My original plan all those years ago was simply to teach people how to grow food, but I got hooked into the chase of the grind in each season and lost that core component, as well as the component of growing food so I could share it with my family, and even start one. These are areas I now put priority on, as I am not longer making decisions based on efficiency in production, but instead in aesthetics of place, as my surroundings have the appearance of a excel spread sheet made manifest, but I need to make it more inviting so moments can be enjoyed among them. I am learning new skills before skills become harder to learn in old age, so I may have more tools to teach with, primarily through art. Ultimately my new goal and motivation is to grow more food, by teaching more people to grow food, instead of myself growing more. Plus a teacher always learns more form their student, than the student takes away from the teacher.
Reply to Patchwork Gardens : You sound very interesting and definitely well spoken and caring. I hope you can find peace in this world. There are a million ways you can live your life. Please consider the many ways you can change your situation and know that this human existence ism precious. I came to Chamus through my spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hahn. I strongly recommend his teaching, he is a Buddhist zen master but his teachings are non secular. I would recommend his book called The Art of Living.
Midlife crisis at 35? Too early.
Dear friend, I wish you well for the future. You are living and breath proof of Camus theology ❤
Spiritual? What does that mean? Just be a good person. It should be enough for anyone.
"For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I’d been happy, and that I was happy still."
~~Albert Camus, The Stranger, Part II, Chapter V
*"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them..."* If you are reading this, I hope you have an amazing day!!! 🙂🙂🙂
lol, i loved that mate thank you. Good advice. I hope you have an amazing day.
But but but the fun is always elsewhere
Wow! This is my new favorite quote!
You sir are too kind. Keep spreading awesomeness much love
I hope you are living your greatest life with happiness and joy. Blessings
I’m lucky to have taken Camus philosophy in college 41 years ago, this young genius words and wisdom is responsible for many positive thought provoking afternoons. In an exercise that defies logic bordering in absurdism, he dies in a car crash @ age 46, I wonder how many more masterpieces he would have written. Love ❤️ this man, he definitely has had a great positive lasting effect in my life. His legacy ensures his immortality, proud to have all of his works and share them with family and friends.
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Great movie star! ❤
love this given me a new look about life and myself
Decades ago I adjusted my life to live in the present and do several other things I found out later philosophers said were good ways to live. I did it only because it made sense to me.
Today I live as a hermit and have for 3 years. The issue with living as philosophers say is 99.9% of people don't. They talk a lot about wanting to live these ways, but don't. When you do live this way it puts you out of step with almost everyone else. You drift further and further from those around you. Be careful about following philosophers. Make sure you actually want that path and where it leads. I'm happy I did, but I don't think it's for everyone.
When you live in the present you are most in touch with the universe how it wants you to be...Just like Freddie Mercury said about songwriting...If it's planned it's boring. Live freely and with no regrets!! It makes you the person you're suppose to be.
Supposed to be...so you mean there is purpose in life..?
This really hit home for me. I knew of Camus, but haven't yet studied his work.
Be it similar life choices, or pathways of thought and action, I swear to you that these philosophic ideas of his mirror my own, almost to a fault.
I'm in my early Autumn Days, and have questioned my choices in life from time to time, but after watching this, I believe I have found a common spirit that resides in myself, and it might be the spirit that inhabited the body of Camus.
I'll have to place Jean Baudrillard on pause, and go back to Albert Camus for the time being. It's good to know that I'm not as alone as I thought.
Thank you for opening my eyes to him, Philosophy for Life.
A little bit of every men resides inside of us. Read Dostoyevski, you'll love it
@@luisbolano8325 He's on my list! I just finished a few of Tolstoy's works, and they blew my mind! The Kreutzer Sonata, was so good I read it again as soon as I finished it.
Well, you then also deserve a Nobel. I hope you'll have it.
@@AvadoNMod I would like to accept this Nobel Prize on behalf of all those that commented and upvoted my original comment. "Y'all da real MVP's" - Albert Einstein
All facts, this was the realization I came to and had to make peace that I wasted so much time, living in the past, instead of living in the present. I have always lived a rebel life, not caring on what society deemed "appropriate" however my kind, generous nature attracted the worst parasites who took advantage, until I learned discernment and had to let go of feeling used and abused. Now living in the present is so freeing.
I can certainly relate to that! So glad that you, like me, finally found some peace. ❤
I don't really watch RUclips but when I do this channel is always the reason. The best channel who enlightened my vision about philosophy so far. KEEP POSTING PLEASE, I'M ABCESSED WITH EVERY SINGLE VIDEO YOU MAKE❤️
An abscess is a severe pus filled bacterial infection. Maybe you meant obsessed?
As stated in materials on the subject of chaos magick, "Nothing is true and everything is permitted." Why settle for someone else's notions of what the universe and life are really all about, or sink into despair at the utter meaningless of it all? Why not just rejoice in this absurdity and blaze forth your own trail. I needed this video tonight!
The Rebel is a book that made a great impression on me and I read it every few years. I don't claim to completely understand it but I think I did pretty well for someone who never made it to high school. It seems to express the need for rebels in various positions in life or else it begins to stagnate and regress. My favourite passage comes on the first page where Camus writes: The rebel slave says yes and no simultaneously. I tend to edit out the word 'slave' whenever I use the quote. It's still a valid quote without the word. Another Camus quote (although I don't know where it comes from) is: In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. It's a beautiful and inspiring quote .
Thank you! that is a great quote.
I wrote down the passage you quoted. So inspiring!
Mr Google says: Camus: "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."At noon, on the half-sandy slopes, strewn with heliotropes like a foam that the furious waves of the last few days had left behind in their retreat, I gazed at the sea, gently rising and falling as if exhausted, and quenched two thirsts that cannot be long neglected if all one’s being is not to dry up, the thirst to love and the thirst to admire. For there is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misery. This is because blood and hatred lay bare the heart itself; the long demand for justice exhausts even the love that gave it birth. In the clamor we live in, love is impossible and justice not enough. That is why Europe hates the daylight and can do nothing but confront one injustice with another. In order to prevent justice from shriveling up, from becoming nothing but a magnificent orange with a dry, bitter pulp, I discovered one must keep a freshness and a source of joy intact within, loving the daylight that injustice leaves unscathed, and returning to the fray with this light as a trophy. Here, once more, I found an ancient beauty, a young sky, and measured my good fortune as I realized at last that in the worst years of our madness the memory of this sky had never left me. It was this that in the end had saved me from despair. I had always known that the ruins of Tipasa were younger than our dry-docks or our debris. In Tipasa, the world is born again each day in a light always new. Oh light! The cry of all the characters in classical tragedy who come face to face with their destinies. I knew now that their final refuge was also ours. In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa (1953)
The word slave is okay to utter
@@dfvm8945 My Goodness, so much Beauty in such misery...I guess realizing that is the way to accepting the conditions (desired or not), which life forces on us.
Thank you. I was not aware that Camus´ philosophy was so similar to my own. It is comforting that your attitude towards life, honed over many decades, is aligned with that of well-known and respected thinkers.
I would love to see a discussion between Camus and Marcus Aurelius or Confucius. Rebellion and the absurd vs Duty and structure as it were.
Probably something like Diogenes vs Plato. Or Sadghuru & Osho vs western ideologies.
Wow!! :)
Camus does not believe in hope or in its “cousin,” regret. If we are to say that regret is futile because it anchors us to the past and thus removed from the present, we must acknowledge the same villainy in hope and in the future to which it is connected. All that is certain is the moment in which we live so our rebellion can only exist there. Yes, one can be absurd in any profession, but Camus specifies the importance and the primacy of creation in the face of inevitable and unpredictable destruction. This can be as vast as actually creating a work of art or simply creating the meanings and outlooks of our daily lives however we see fit, on the condition that we consciously face the absurd in every moment.
Eu tô nessa vibe. Passo pano pra geral
That's a very good synthesis of his work along with tangible examples.. Narration and montage are excellent also.. Thanks..
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אתה בוחר איך חייך ישפיעו עליך.
בעזרת כך שאם תסתכל על הטוב ולא על הרע
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Use your obstacle as a tool for good
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Give meaning to yourself by doing everything intensively.
Maximizing your time.
Aim to be the best.
That's a meaning as well.
And stay the best as long as you willing to do it.
My favorite philosopher. A writer of startling original thoughts and stunning prose style. I have a shrine to him on my bookshelf. (Nevertheless ... our heroes have feet of clay, as Lottman's biography shows.) Thank you for your lovely lecture!
I am 60 now, My Children are 24 and 23 , trying to pass any of my Hard fought Knowledge onto them , is like smashing my head against a brick wall......lol...
True dat.
The best thing you can do is to love them and let them learn from their own experiences. However well intentioned you are, you will always be seen as an oppressor. I spent years resisting my overbearing parents. Some of what they said and believed was the sme as what I came to believe, but much of what they said was wrong or not appropriate. If they ask for advice, you can give it. Keep in mind you may not be always right, or that what feels right for you may not be right for them.
We condition our children by how we behave. Just be kind and available and they will grow themselves.
I was born not far from where he was born in eastern algeria n I discovered at early age his works at my primary school library which become later my bible . Repose en paix, tonton Albert.
The more meaning we ceate for ourselves, the more intensively can we rebel against the world, the more can we live our life to the point of tears.
Reading a lot of the comments below, it struck me that given the age and circumstance of Camus' death, one can only hope to be lucky in life. It seems that despair is a direct result of, as Camus put it, undergoing the experience of bad luck. Life is such a fickle mistress whose whims can change a person's life in a heartbeat - for ill or benefit. Accepting this absurd fact is perhaps key to living a full life. Great video synopsis of his philosophy. Thanks. X
The video and message are very well done. I applaud you.
The philosophy [Absurdism] is literally a carbon copy of Stoicism, simply rebranded. That's how I heard it in my head. Just the same, I enjoyed it.
Rest in powerful peace Albert Camus 🙏
7 November 1913 ~
4 January 1960⚘
Bonne vulgarisation de la pensée de ce génie d’Albert Camus. Well done and lets all seek for applying this philosophy 🙏
Thank you! Wow, it's absurd I haven't heard of Absurdism. This was preaching to the choir the whole way through. Hilarious, entertaining to boot. I'll be showing people this.
Autumn is new spring. So true. In autumn 🍂 turn into such beautiful colors it looks like flowers again.
through acceptance of this indifference, he became able to face the absurd..👌
I had read Calmu and thought his absurdism is deeply pessimistic but this discourse not only helped me to understand Calmu better and almost fully,it helped me in fighting deep depression which has emanated from the realisation that life is essentially meaningless.Thanks.
What an amazing video, thank you so much for this
To be or not to be, that is the question !
I needed to watch this today. Thank you! 🙏
me too!
The circumstances of his death proved the absurdity of existence. What a talent to lose with so much more to offer.
My favourite Camus is the poem Invincible Summer, it's kept me going on many occasions 💜
I’m 75 and at age 50 I lived in New York where I was born . I had never lived anywhere else though being descended from puertorican parents, I had learned of my culture and visited the island at age 23 and about 5 more times till moving to Puerto Rico in 2000. I made the drastic decision to move permanently my only son at age 25 took his life. I had no family left in NY and decided it would be too lonely and painful to continue there . Though I live far from the family left in PR i,ve continued living by my own in a senior condo, for 15 yrs now. It’s very lifeless and poor, I only receive social security and it barely covers my basic expenses. I’ve made the best of it- even had a small business for a short while. hosted a tourism catamaran and was a sales rep for a cigar company. This all happened from 50 to 62 yrs old. Such a long story but to say that I never gave up hope and each day I would open the door of my rental and decided to make the best of each day. So Mr Camus was correct with his philosophy of living the present. That’s what I did. Thank you for reading.
Although I am not completely agree with Cuma's idea about life, but the other half of his ideas are worth reading.
I'm 46 and for you to suggest I'm in the "autumn season of my life" or that "I don't adhere to beauty standards like I once did" when I feel like I'm just getting started doesn't exactly make me want to turn to more of your philosophy oh happiness lol. Camus on the other hand I will read more about.
Thank you so much for this video!
Hugs from Greece ❤️
I just listened to the whole thing. Changed my day around for the better!
Leading a life of constant hunger forces me to live in the present. I’m too hungry to be depressed over the past and anxious about the future. Also, hunger sharpens my awareness and offers me a healthy dose of detachment from societal norms.
Another video that I will write in my journal. Thank you very much.
For the first time I am watching a RUclips worth being watched ! More than that as though I am listening to a Buddha Dhamma talk! Meursault after being imprisoned began to see things! He saw « for the first time » the moon from his prison roof! He saw moon with mindfulness! He began to live in the Present ! I would like to draw your attention to the following quote of Erwin Schordinger , the quantum physicist : « There is only Now, this one and immutable Now; Now is the only thing that has no end! »
Please accept my heartfelt gratitude for publishing this worthy RUclips ! You deserve everyone’s appreciation !
To me existentialism, nihilism, and absurdism, are all basically the same type of philosophy, unless you want to split hairs in fine tuning differences. I’m in total agreement that the world we live in is absurd, and without any intrinsic meaning, other than my own personal meaning and perspective. In other words, just accept things the way they are, being skeptical, and agnostic about all things that can never be explained. It’s of the outmost importance to be authentic to one self at all times, without being defined by the wishes of anyone else.
Existentialism and Absurdism are not nihilism. Nihilism comes after seeing the meaningless of existence and choosing social and mental suicide while being unwilling to take the final step. Absurdism and existentialism each give their own ways of overcoming that lack of absolute meaning inherent in life. Nihilism does no such thing.
Thank you for this video....literally shifted my perspective of life❤️❤️
Needed this so hard. Thanks
Absurdly fantastic. Clearly explained with a great speaking voice.
Sad that he died the year of my birth but so glad to read his words 👍👍👍 strange really as Im not really a book fan but I'm changing as I get old so thanks Albert 📖👌
The Myth of Sisyphus; one of the interesting book I ever read.
Agree.
I read a lot about buddism, absurdism and stoisism and these all have the simmilar points.
❤ Thank you for insight and education.
I'm a very simple man, I see Camus and I click.
The meaning of life 💫is to give life a meaning💫💫💫💫💫
This is going to work for me..
And I am doing great for myself to
Do great for others I promise that
Thankyou
Living life to the fullest means not confining a person in their home at all times w/o exploring leisure activities that can assist them in blowing off steam creatively!
One of the best videos on RUclips ♥️
no matter what you are going thru , the sun will come up tomorrow and nothing is permanent
very interesting!!!! a fantastic explanation. Good job! Keep this up. thanks
A bonus and boost to watch! Thanks for creating & uploading this.
My thoughts of acceptance atm..
Is we would never die..
Then LIFE would be a meaningless Lie!
I believe in via dolorosa. Acceptance has at least helped me during these harsh times.
Cheers from Finland
..cold today, freezy wind. Lots ov clothes needed. Tomorrow never knows ;)
I love and respect it
Many of us today have had this crossroad thrust on us willy nilly and some have lost what they assumed was the meaning to their lives. Whether their job, their church, their family and friends, their plans....nothing is the same as before 2020. Many have committed suicide or overdosed without intending it...others have glued themselves to screens. So I wanted to share an insight.
First, I'm not Matthew...due to a housefire, the computer says I am; but it's wrong. Camus would love that. I'm Deanna, his mother.
I was a mother and then caregiver to my husband all my adult life...and I was a devout Catholic...those shaped life. Children grew up, I cared for grandchildren. Then 2020 and a housefire, my husband's death (not covid), and church closings. In short, a familiar story.
I began taking my 3 remaining dogs for drives and runs at the cemetery...they are not polite urban dogs. I wonder what drugs people are giving their pets because mine have never been such automatons on leashes as most are. For most Americans, this seems like a waste of time and gas. But I learned...we drive through neighborhoods I never knew existed, like delivery vans do. I smile at passersby and the black people wave and smile but the white people never do. Odd...they have not been African for 250 years but they still consider it an act of hostility to ignore a Howdy Do.
Spending my small Social Security on this and sewing my clothes would be hell to Hillary Clinton and such people....but times have given absurd living a life worth living.
Suicide OR have a cup of coffee and go on from there. Camus said that was the choice. The meaning of life is already a given....life itself.
Deanna - can I ask do you have any resentments? Or how did you get rid of them?
I take it back and am just in admiration of your life. Thanks for sharing. I’m finding some Camus to read up on.
I love how your comment ended. "The meaning of life is life itself." Thankyou. And thankyou for sharing. 💖
What really matters in the end ultimately is survival. In this universe, complex life is scarce and unlikely and thus valuable and meaningful in itself. Survival is what matters but should be for survival for longer term.
Until my 20-21, I read all important works of A. Camus, and I was deeply impressed by him. But today, after 40 years, I do not think the same about the philosophical ideas of Camus, like I did when I was in my twenties. Because, I think the life and its meaning cannot be seperated; I mean, the meaning of life is an inseparable part of human life, there are always meanings in life. Simply because, being alive is a meaning. In other words, absolute meaninglesness starts with the end of life, and it belongs to death. If the life would be meaningless like Camus defined, in this meaningless and purposeless world, it would never be possible to find our own meaning in life. As a matter of fact, - not to be able to find meaning in life - is undefined, it changes from person to person. What is the dose of meaning in life? Do every single human being need the same amount of meaning in life, in order not to commit suicide? What dose of meaning makes a human very happy, or what dose of meaninglesness leads a human to commit suicide?
Thank you for videos you make! your channel got me to start posting nature videos. Thank you
Needed this reminder right now thanks for posting
Take three deeeep breaths, hold your breath before every exhale. Nothing puts you in the present like meditation.
Damn, I think I've found all the answers I've been looking for in my past 27 years of living.
I doubt if we could really achieve "acceptance"...you might convince yourself that you accept reality as it is without questioning...but at the back of your mind, existential questions will keep knocking. Even acceptance is escaping.
If faith is escaping, then it at least has some answers. Acceptance has no answers at all
Acceptance or resilience?
Thank s for this video' an opening to new horizon of life and real unique meaning of path of life but of course man cannot live alone he need the universe.
Love this 💗 Thankyou for sharing 🙏
Vital as a response to today's issues... we all need to take notes!
wow acceptance is a key to being in the moment,we need to work on it thnx so much for helping🤩✌
Being in the moment is where I want to be most of the time…..slipping into absurdism is where I find myself occasionally… what a weird concept to ponder!
In order to find meaning in life, you also need to find people that affirm your beliefs and actions. That can be good or bad however. You can find meaning in acts of violence if you hang with racists, or by acts of generosity if you hang with most Christians. So finding “meaning” alone is not enough to make life truly satisfying and enjoyable.
Where are these racists, I want to see one in reality.
Great video❤️
Okay I need to rewatch again I like this video
Love him. Thank you!
Powerful video
A life without a passion isn't much of a life at all. Find your passion and pursue it.
A great video, thanks. Camus strikes me as a closet idealist who, while believing that the meaning of life is to fight for goodness, fails to unpack the all-too-human ethical conflicts that "goodness" embraces. Does a worker quit work to reject workplace injustice, or does he remain to feed to feed his family? I need ethical tools! Time for a cup of coffee.
Great point, of course most/all workers would logically remain employed…maybe just not at that particular organization anymore
Quit and grow a garden. Courage of conviction. Yes coffee time.
Learn to live in the moment🌟 such a great advice!
Talking about faith, I don't think faith defies rationality. I used to be a skeptic before I found that Christianity is highly rational and could satisfy my intellectual needs. Please read C.S. Lewis' argument in Mere Christianity as an introduction (if you're skeptics). And obviously, Bible is a must-read.
I wake up most mornings feeling I live in a horrible world that makes less and less sense. Then I go fix some coffee and put together a meal, and I'm simply moving on, doing what I can. I don't think you can ignore the horror of living. Most people I know live in a fantasy world. Happiness is a big house and a big car. It is much easier to be mindless. Marketing provides people with a comfort zone.
i hope this philosophy brings you some peace as it had for me, considering we think in a similar fashion. stick around brother. experience the absurd world while holding onto the meaning that keeps you alive.
Too good! Thanks for this posts!!
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So amazing as usual 🙂 hello from Algeria
Philosophically true to a point! No one can predict the future when it comes to health, nature, and political views of the world. STAY true to thy self and acturulazilation will follow, living a healthy and holdlistic lifestyle. MAX 🌏👍🙏❤💯🌻💙🙏👍
I was taught that the 1957 Nobel prize was for the work done on the underground newspapers of WW2 Paris. Camus wrote for and edited the Resistance journal Combat.
I am grateful for the gift of now 🎁❤
I was just experiencing life the best way I knew how that wouldn’t hurt anybody else
I was learning and doing, that is why I was looking up all the home office equipment, I wanted my half of the phone call to be as perfect as it could be because I knew my script would be the only variable I could control while making cold calls to potential new clients. I just wanted to be the middleman and get paid a commission for signing up great contractors to help others
I post on fb and do rarely look at peoples responses. I myself think life has a meaning and we all have a purpose in life.
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Thank you for this, appreciate the mindfulness of your content and it overall
Thank you 😊
The purpose of life is to live it; the meaning to life is that which we give it.
"You care more about what people think about you"
"You should be looking at the clouds instead of your phone"
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