Is the absurd man stupid?
Absurdism, Albert Camus
I’m currently studying philosophy for fun. I’ll cover one branch/person every two months, starting with Camus - mostly sharing research and quotes. I might also revisit sci-fi classics (starting with H. G. Wells) later. Some how I find a lot of this relates to tech - like why are we making the things we’re making and should we? etc. Life.
Albert Camus - how to live a meaningless life
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
More: Camus in ten minutes, and Camus lectures (four) - good.
Sisyphus, the specialist
“Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
Other works - The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall, and The Rebel.
Albert Camus vs. Jean-Paul Sartre
“Sometimes I look at a Socialist - the intellectual, tract-writing type of Socialist, with his pullover, his fuzzy hair, and his Marxian quotation - and wonder what the devil his motive really is. It is often difficult to believe that it is a love of anybody, especially of the working class, from whom he is of all people the furthest removed. The underlying motive of many Socialists, I believe, is simply a hypertrophied sense of order. The present state of affairs offends them not because it causes misery, still less because it makes freedom impossible, but because it is untidy; what they desire, basically, is to reduce the world to something resembling a chessboard.” - George Orwell
A Few Existentialists
Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky
I was curious -
