7 Life Lessons From Albert Camus (Philosophy of Absurdism)

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In this video we will be talking about 7 Life Lessons From Albert Camus. Albert Camus is one of the most representative figures of the philosophy of the “absurd” or “absurdism,” and his philosophy has inspired a lot of people in dealing with the absurdity of life.
So with that in mind, here are 7 important lessons that we can learn from Albert Camus -
01. Create your own meaning for life
02. Don’t make happiness a distant goal
03. Don’t be ignorant
04. Be a rebel
05. Spend time with yourself
06. Be flexible
07. Choose Love
I hope you enjoyed watching the video and hope these 7 Life Lessons From Albert Camus will add value to your life.
Albert Camus is one of the greatest French writers and thinkers. He was a philosopher, an author and a journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 and his most famous works are The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel. Camus is one of the most representative figures of the philosophy of the “absurd” or “absurdism,” which is a philosophical movement having as its central hypothesis that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe. Camus considered that absolute freedom must be balanced with absolute justice - too much freedom leads to the situation when the strong suppresses the weak but too much justice kills freedom, and we need to live and let live. As a promoter of the philosophy of the “absurd”, Camus believed that life has no meaning, that the universe simply exists and that it is indifferent to people’s lives. We are like Sisyphus from Greek mythology, forever carrying that heavy rock to the top of the hill, although we know the rock will always fall down and our life's work is meaningless. Our condition might be tragic, but Camus considered that this exact condition hides a blessing in disguise: life does not have a meaning, but we are free to attribute it any meaning we want. His philosophy has inspired a lot of people in dealing with the absurdity of life and even today, his philosophy is extremely relevant.
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@PhilosophiesforLife 3 жыл бұрын

Albert Camus says “You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” 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.

@t.d108 3 жыл бұрын

Please address your advertiser: PRAGER “University”!! Why are you supporting their racist right wing propaganda?!

@satnamo 3 жыл бұрын

Camus is ancient, lh!

@hellavadeal 3 жыл бұрын

Yes , but knowing it has a meaning helps guide you to a good life. And , I do appreciate your videos. Thanks.

@pinkfloyd9038 3 жыл бұрын

I think that you are wrong about "giving meaning to life", this statement is rather Sartre/debeauvoir way of existentialism. The mythe of sysiphus help us to free our selves by learning how to accept that life has no meaning. The first aim is to live with this idea without getting further to any attempt of finding or creating meaning.

@suatustel746 3 жыл бұрын

Unexamined life is not worth living plato....

@correspondencecommittee5746 2 жыл бұрын

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ---Albert Camus

@quad7375 Жыл бұрын

Definitely an interesting perspective from camus. If you or anyone else like that philosophy of thought around meaning, I would love to hear a perspective of a philosophy also centered around meaning but goes in a different direction. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9N4i7yZ1auoloE.html

@jon9221 2 жыл бұрын

Through living my life I have basically come to these same conclusions. It's incredible hearing that there is actually a name for it and others have the same belief.

@JamieJacksonati Жыл бұрын

Camus’ philosophy is certainly the most aligned to my own. I find it much more realistic than something like stoicism which is fashionable right now.

@katie5998 Жыл бұрын

@@JamieJacksonati They're both pretty similar, honestly. Both outline many of the same core ideas.

@robbanks7390 Жыл бұрын

Stoicism is fashionable right now ? Awha, who are hangin' with lol.

@quad7375 Жыл бұрын

@@JamieJacksonati If anyone likes these philosophical thoughts I would love to get perspectives on a philosophy that says goes in a different direction. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9N4i7yZ1auoloE.html

@manbeezis Жыл бұрын

Same, i pretty much developed this ideology in its entirety on my own since i dropped out of college 7 years ago. watching this video was mind blowing because nearly every single one of these lessons is a conclusion id come to already

@ICEcoldJT 3 жыл бұрын

“When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control how you respond to what’s happening. That’s where your power is.”

@privatprivat7279 3 жыл бұрын

What about...change your being to be able to change whats happening...

@t.v.k.1675 3 жыл бұрын

That is Stoicism

@mooy7745 3 жыл бұрын

I concur.

@voraxity965 3 жыл бұрын

Yo icecold, I asked you about your thoughts on philosophy in a live a while ago lol

@crypticcoding9680 3 жыл бұрын

@@privatprivat7279 if someone you love is dead How will you change it?

@Bga1412 2 жыл бұрын

My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. I received a telegram from the old people's home: "Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Very sincerely yours." That doesn't mean anything. It might have been yesterday These words have been burned into my skull since I read them almost 15 years ago. Absolutely love Camus

@colourinmyrainbow 2 жыл бұрын

At last! A philosopher who makes real sense. Totally appropriate and relevant for today.

@quad7375 Жыл бұрын

I would love to get perspectives on a philosophy that says goes in a different direction. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9N4i7yZ1auoloE.html

@FuckYouTube1776 Жыл бұрын

The FIRST made perfect sense, and still does - His name was Aristotle. I agree however, that it's been a downhill ride ever since.

@moeketsikhetla6373 3 жыл бұрын

This is interesting. We spent so much time of our lives trying to impress people at the expense of our happiness.

@AvadoNMod 3 жыл бұрын

And did this video make you stop doing this? Will you be an entirely different person from now on? What do you think?

@andyappleton3353 3 жыл бұрын

That is so untrue. I never tell anyone about my billion dollar bank account, my paralyzing good looks, my giant boner, my Lamborghini, my giant house on the hill complete with giant swimming pool complete with waterfall and slide, my movie star wife or my 97 million followers on instagram.

@jeanmitton4287 2 жыл бұрын

Yes we are all Nuts.. then we die... Dance with life NOW

@scottthomas5819 2 жыл бұрын

absolutely !

@andyappleton3353 2 жыл бұрын

@@knotwilg3596 I sleep in an emperors size bed being fanned by two dozen island girls...do you?

@effylabrado8230 Жыл бұрын

I’m 14, and I’m so glad I discovered Camus and his philosophies because it gives me the entire rest of my life to live by them. I’ve been through a lot and he’s helped me accept it and without him and his ideologies

@CrypticCurrent 10 ай бұрын

You are so ahead of the curve

@luiscastro-my3iw 10 ай бұрын

I discovered Camus in my high-school library at 14. Taught myself a little French and painstakingly translated it word by word. Was never the same.

@joshjwillway1545 5 ай бұрын

Did you keep up with the French?@@luiscastro-my3iw

@retrophonicbotique 5 ай бұрын

Unbelievably intelligent for your age.

@martingoldfire 5 ай бұрын

Do yourself a favour, explore beyond Camus, even though he is brilliant. Philosophy is the spice of life, do not be content with only one✌️💚🖖

@vcdr4662 3 жыл бұрын

"In the depth of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible Summer"

@jamesbyrne9312 3 жыл бұрын

Yah but that summer come and goes inside too. I suppose nothing is forever which is a good thing.

@sonoflillith1 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a quote from Olaf the snowman.

@joeshepherd6419 2 жыл бұрын

What is wrong with embracing our inter winter? Stop with all the sun shiny bullshit.

@AmarNanavati 2 жыл бұрын

Discovered this quote after I went through hell and emerged a stronger person. It really is true.

@WallaceAJenkins 2 жыл бұрын

@@joeshepherd6419 who hurt you?

@drianingenson920 3 жыл бұрын

I would love a coffee with Camus in the void

@pranavm.d457 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂🤣👍

@AFMMarcelD 2 жыл бұрын

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others ~ Albert Camus

@aganib4506 Жыл бұрын

Very true, especially when it comes to our celebrity culture here in the USA. This also applies to our friends and their posts on Instagram.

@MITMathematica 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite Camus quote on Fascism and Marxism, and his abhorrence for both- from the guy who insisted he is not an existentialist ( probably due to his fallout w/ Sartre): “ The first [ Fascism] represents the exaltation of the executioner by the executioner; the second [ Marxism], more dramatic in concept, the exaltation of the executioner by the victims. The former never dreamed of liberating all men, but only of liberating a few by subjugating the rest. The latter, in its most profound principle, aims at liberating all men by provisionally enslaving them all.” -Albert Camus, The Rebel-

@bruh-en3ti Жыл бұрын

This was so perfect for me. I have the same opinion on life as Camus. I didn't know he had that opinion as well. I heard about a book called The Stranger. I read it. It was the best book I have ever read. I'm 17 btw, I'm sure that throughout my life I will read a lot of more masterpieces, but this is the 1st one I've read. I was interested in Camus and I found out that he was not only a writer but also a philosopher. And that he "founded" absurdism which has the exact same life thought as I do!!! This is so perfect. I already ordered 3 different books that he wrote.

@sangarios54 2 жыл бұрын

I love this channel because it's not a self help channel. We are just hearing thoughts of the well known philosophers rather than self help sharks/cowboys who trying to sell you more of their junk stuff.

@Skanking-Corpse 7 ай бұрын

Realising that there is no god and the universe doesn't care about us was probably the most freeing realization I've ever had. After learning about Camus I realized that I had come to many of his conclusions without even knowing his philosophy.

@boitata2617 2 жыл бұрын

Ok, am I the only one who always heard that absurdism never proposed for us to create meaning, that's existentialism. Absurdism was about accepting that life has no meaning, and remain happy, as an act of rebelion.

@thetaboyswag2307 Жыл бұрын

Yes you’re completely right, I believe the main character of the “The Stranger” represents that

@dhul-qarnaynmonir7306 Жыл бұрын

True

@victoriagolden8117 3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the talk given with quiet in the background. Terrific, kudos!

@peytonquinn3095 2 жыл бұрын

g content in the present moment - is absolutely Buddhism and Taoism" quite so my friend

@Reymundodonsayo 3 жыл бұрын

Well I’m happy to report that I discovered Camus philosophy on my own in my early teens. There is only one reality, your own!

@scottthomas5819 3 жыл бұрын

that's what I keep telling people - The Never Ending Story is a documentary!

@RajeshSingh-zg7gj 2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@theunfortunateguy8348 2 жыл бұрын

Thank Goodness I'm a Pessimistic Nihilist!

@theaveragefryingpan 4 ай бұрын

@@theunfortunateguy8348Wha why

@ericjohn277 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@johnz8843 2 жыл бұрын

Eric - Do you see Camus as influenced by the Stoics mainly in Camus' focus on evil as a form of ignorance because I can't think of another connection?

@coadmiller5010 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't camus' absurdism akin to the early 20th century art movement called dadaism? Just saying...re Gurtrude Stein...

@ericjohn277 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnz8843 Hi John. Consider Camus’ philosophical treatise, The Myth of Sisyphus, based on the Greek myth of Sisyphus whose punishment it is to roll a boulder up a hill, then down, then back up, for all eternity. For Camus, Sisyphus is a hero because he willingly accepts his fate - the absurd job/existence (i.e the human condition) of rolling a rock back and forth - without resentment. This seems to me a virtue he took from the Stoics and the importance they place on accepting, rather than fighting ones’ fate. ‘Focus only on what you can change; not on what is out of your control’. There could be other parallels in Stoicism and Camus’ philosophy, if I thought about it, like regarding agnosticism.

@ericjohn277 2 жыл бұрын

@@coadmiller5010 Nice one. I hadn’t made that connection before, but you’re right. I think both Dadaism and Camus’ philosophy were a reaction to the insanity/absurdity of WWI and the arrogance of society’s hypocritical Bourgeois values. (Also very inspired by Nietzsche, generation or two, before.)

@johnz8843 2 жыл бұрын

@@ericjohn277 Eric, thanks for your reply. I know that Camus studied ancient philosophy, having done a thesis on St. Augustine and Plotinus. And certainly accepting one's fate and being without resentment are essential principles of Stoicism. Camus, however, would consider the acceptance of other Stoic principles as philosophical suicide. The Stoic believed our reason was a portion of Divine Reason and that God cared for us by giving us resources to deal with our fate. It was a theodicy with which Camus would disagree. Also the Stoics believed our virtues derived from the defined nature of human beings. I believe Camus conceived of human virtues as our response to our tragic fate -- the certainty of death without hope. The Stoics did not have a tragic view of human life. Stoics accept their fate as a reflection of the unfolding of Divine Reason immanent in the universe and they seek to have natural virtues of a human being. Doing so leads to happiness and peace of mind. I'm not trying to be simply contentious. I love the Stoics. I read them each day as an inspiration and guide. But I believe what virtues we cultivate reflect in a meaningful measure existential choices without some assurance of ultimate consolation or transcendental grounding. That position would be consistent with Camus but not with the Stoics. Perhaps I'm missing something though. Again, thanks for your comment.

@garyhughes1664 3 жыл бұрын

Great to see comparisions between Camus, Sartre, and Schopenhauer. A wonderful video.

@jempierre2777 2 жыл бұрын

In France, Albert Camus is one of the greatest autor. Glad to know that he's also known here

@marko6168 2 жыл бұрын

are you kidding me? It's an obligatory read in my country school system.

@dextermorgan7439 Жыл бұрын

I live in Belgium and i read all his books. The translation to dutch is bad sometimes , i should've put more attention to french lesson in highschool

@Diana-gt1rv 3 жыл бұрын

This is a very interesting lecture which makes me reflect upon my own life. As a teenager I was a big fan of Camus and Sartre and I read all their books in the original language. Now I find it really amazing that I recognise myself in all seven points of this video: 1) I create my own meaning of life by not following the herds. 2) I use to live in the “here and now” and thereby don’t see happiness as a distant goal. 3) I can very well relate to the wonderful sentence “the root of all evil in the world is ignorance.” For example I firmly believe that the root of conspiracy theory is ignorance of scientific facts. 4) I am a rebel in the sense that I live authentically, without trying to please others. My lifestyle is guided by my rebelling against the absurdity of materialism. 5) I very much enjoy spending time alone and meditating on love and the absurdity of life. 6) Tolerance is one of my highest moral values. I am flexible with regard to new challenges regarding work or a relationship. And I totally agree that we have to be flexible when dealing with the world’s biggest tragedies which at the moment is climate change. So we need to adapt our lifestyle accordingly. 7) Last but not least I have chosen love above any thing else in my life.

@AvadoNMod 3 жыл бұрын

Glad for you!

@macardona5 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful principles. We should encourage teenagers to read more existencialism. It gives the young minds the mental peace to become what they decide to be and work hard for it. It helps the whole society to become more human oriented.

@addevries8163 3 жыл бұрын

What is the purpose of love if there is no purpose at all?

@macardona5 3 жыл бұрын

@@addevries8163 love is a mental contruct. It, in itself, does not have more purpose than the person who is deconstructing it gives it. In other words. You find the purpose of your interpretation of "love"

@anamericaninamericavotesblue 3 жыл бұрын

@@addevries8163 where did you get that idea? Certainly not from this video. You decide what purpose your life serves.

@winterramos4527 3 жыл бұрын

What it's important is that we study different Philosophy from different Philosophers. So, we can always have questions and never hit a wall. That's why philosophy and psychology go hand to hand

@lorenzogumier7646 3 жыл бұрын

Know your values, strive for them, be ready to change what doesn´t fit, keep on learning, enjoy the present, live with love.

@jeffreylewis8019 2 жыл бұрын

"wake up an hour early to enjoy the sunrise and meditate on the absurdity of life before your family wakes up." hahaha.

@georgianawhite412 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I laughed at this, too.

@taoapparel2563 2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha ❤️

@yao199 3 жыл бұрын

life has no meaning: panik you can create your own meaning: kalm that meaning is meaningless: panik

@rumit9946 2 жыл бұрын

You need to learn spelling

@carlosclassic5851 2 жыл бұрын

@@rumit9946 English teacher?

@N7spongy 2 жыл бұрын

Then you learn that that concept of meaninglessness is meaningless and it goes around in circles until you decide that it means something to you.

@jaideepsingh4395 2 жыл бұрын

@@rumit9946 you need to learn meme language.

@igorlevch7968 2 жыл бұрын

spongebob cave man face

@AndorranStairway Жыл бұрын

"No man with enough intelligence would choose to harm others, as the harm would come back to him eventually" I can't say I agree with that statement, because it contradicts the observable world. It sounds a lot like karma, which is nothing but faith-based hope. People harm others all the time so as to preserve their own existence, and these people very often live very long lives. Power reigns in this world, and this power comes not just from knowledge, but from wealth and influence. Call me cynical, but in my view, this is merely fact. That said, Camus's philosophy aligns very strongly with my own. I shared his philosophy long before I ever heard of him, and I'm delighted to know that there are many others who can accept the absurd

@Aku-ut8mn Жыл бұрын

I wish i was more educated and learned about Camus earlier... it would've greatly helped to carry on with my life and make sense of it

@mikec6733 3 жыл бұрын

Ignorance, Greed, and Anger are "the three poisons" in Buddhism.

@LivingALifeOfAbundance 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@scorqio 3 жыл бұрын

Well said boss

@LivingALifeOfAbundance 3 жыл бұрын

@@scorqio salute bro!

@rajorshitapas1623 3 жыл бұрын

Well said boss

@tomdenizensadang9763 3 жыл бұрын

Where'd you learn/read this? Thank you.

@vidalskyociosen3326 3 жыл бұрын

Make it simple mind your life.

@scottbarber2736 3 жыл бұрын

I am using this video to explain better to my friends and family what I mean when I say that I am an absurdist. Thank you! ❤️

@Reymundodonsayo 3 жыл бұрын

Zacly

@4ksilentwalk485 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this lesson. 🙏

@rummanz 3 жыл бұрын

beautifully explained.thank you...great video.

@florencekokoris 3 жыл бұрын

I just love your work. Thank you.

@highstakes1235 3 жыл бұрын

So glad you brought this out

@mreclecticguy 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent summary. Thank you.

@michael_leclezio 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Very insightful!!

@pipex4548 8 ай бұрын

Lessons: 1- Create your own meaning in life. 2- Don´t make happiness a distant goal 3- Don´t be ignorant 4- Be a rebel 5- Spend time with yourself 6- Be flexible 7- Choose love

@atanacioluna292 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I love your summary.

@curtismckiernan6640 Жыл бұрын

I've been going through a mysterious time for a while now. I've been visiting with my VA psychologist also and we are trying to discover what my underlying issue has caused this. I have felt like I broke out of something. Like I broke out of the bubble of life as we think of it. We've cistern some topics including Alan Watts, existentialism, even Bruce Almighty. None of them fit exactly, but they come close. Dark Nigh of the Soul was a near match. I would recommend that to any one searching this path. I've mentioned in sessions a lot pointless of suffering, disappointment and disgust (with God,) futility, etc. We are slowly making progress, but emphasis on slow. This philosophy of Albert Camus is amazing and probably the closest match to what's been going on in my head and my gut. My counselor had questioned me about suicide and I asked her that wasn't a possibility or an issue. I told her I do not have faith. I believe (in God) but do not have faith in him. She brought up the option of acceptable interestingly, but not understanding how that applies, I calmly disregarded that our questioned it. I don't have the feeling that the origins of her idea actually came out of Camus' philosophy but I am definitely going to inquire and share the knowledge. I am sure she will investigate. This discovery is leaving me hopeful that this confinement of discontent may subside... or morph into the form of acceptance in terms of this philosophy. I've mentioned all of these upbringings as pieces of some puzzle that haven't found their place yet. A lot of the prior work has literally fallen into place upon adding this perspective, yet there is still work to be done. O do know that what emerges out the other side will be a much more light, free, enlightened and content me. I wish the best to all out there with yourselves.

@saidmouinet 2 жыл бұрын

Simply GREAT. Thanks a lot !

@rein29233 Жыл бұрын

explanation was amazing and far easier to understand. thank you for this

@lakshmitummala 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Philosophies for Life, for sharing this very important and meaningful video.

@praveenModlier 3 жыл бұрын

Well researched and compiled.

@silverback7783 8 ай бұрын

I am glad i didn't reject this video as absurd. It is not absurd it is a paradox, and paradoxes are beautiful.

@4Seaofthoughts Жыл бұрын

This is the best podcast and might be the last I need in my life to understand the meaning of my life. Blissfull ans so pacified and solace at last.

@riversideselfstudy4926 4 ай бұрын

really excellent work. compelled me to appreciate it

@bolt8987 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks you so much, i find your channel very useful.

@SamuraiKidMusic 3 жыл бұрын

This was well presented and informative. Thank you!

@vacysmotuzas4267 2 жыл бұрын

Very great video about Camus. Thanks ...

@marianne7053 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this video made for me , I appreciate your work ❤️

@gawaineross6119 2 жыл бұрын

This is a clear and professional presentation. Thanks!

@stevepayne5965 2 жыл бұрын

Camo is sometimes used in the military as short for camouflage. Cammo is a north-western suburb of Edinburgh. The philosopher's surname (or at least a reasonable approximation in English) is Camoo, like cows.

@danroy1511 Жыл бұрын

The British will always believe they know how to correct the French on the pronunciation of French words. 🙂

@stevepayne5965 Жыл бұрын

@Dan Roy Because we know how to do it best, me lad 🙂

@SVSP1976 8 ай бұрын

Excellently experienced and extremely educatively exciting.

@shreyasnshkumar3570 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Good work.

@caramason56 2 жыл бұрын

Inspiring and brilliant 😊👍

@philipnestor5034 3 жыл бұрын

I just subscribed to these videos and really enjoy them. I wish I could’ve applied some of these thoughts to my life many years ago and avoid some unhappiness.Time to apply them now I guess.Thanks for posting these.

@AFMMarcelD 2 жыл бұрын

It’s never too late Philip, you are indeed an achiever, welcome to self enlightenment.👌

@ariaca7720 3 жыл бұрын

This philosophy really hits hard

@user-ru8ts8nr1p 2 жыл бұрын

Life is good itself. People give a bad meaning when they use it for a bad reason. A good tree just like a good life is supposed to bear good fruits in due season even if it undergoes numerous calamities beyond control but only when cultivated with appropriate care. Time or chance is the key. If you have TIME no matter how little, you have LIFE no matter how short and you can do something good no matter how absurd you think about this world.

@seraalberich51 2 жыл бұрын

Am I an idiot or was this video describing existentialism as opposed to absurdism during the point of “create your own meaning of life”? According to Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, “Hope of another life one must “deserve” or trickery of those that will transcend it, refine it, give it a meaning, and betray it” (pg. 8). Camus describes the creation of a subjective meaning as eluding the truth in search of comfort. The point of absurdism is to live despite lack of meaning. Existentialism is more about having the freedom to give your own meaning to the concept of life.

@E_V878 Жыл бұрын

No, you are correct. The video confuses existentialism with absurdism. He calls the subjective creation of meaning as a way to cope with meaninglessness “philosophical suicide”.

@faithalessandri1879 3 жыл бұрын

Love this video!!! 🥰👍🏻❤💯

@PDN11141 2 жыл бұрын

Love the process of learning.

@scott8957 2 жыл бұрын

one way to rebel against the absurdity/meaninglessness of life is to love. how beautiful.

@rocketsinghism 3 жыл бұрын

Will try to learn at least one lesson, this great philosopher taught!

@starlight27277 3 жыл бұрын

The only solution to freedom and justice is to live a righteous life. We need a justice system for those who live unjust and harm humans, animals and the environment.

@gwarlow 2 жыл бұрын

Too bad that the “justice” system doesn’t apply to everyone who does harm in this world. Just applies to those who cannot afford the best lawyers…

@tangerinesarebetterthanora7060 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of "righteous" types cause more harm then good.

@ayliea3974 3 жыл бұрын

I'd really like to see an overview of philosophy to be included in high school curricula. Providing our children with critical thinking concepts is essential.

@lordsod69 3 жыл бұрын

We need it now more than ever.

@hobihope2981 3 жыл бұрын

Fr fr. Most kids just blindly follow whatever is taught to them by their parents or immediate surroundings.

@Gk2003m 2 жыл бұрын

Too many religious nuts would object to it

@Tyler-hk4wo 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah religious parents would definitely rebel against it.

@ayliea3974 2 жыл бұрын

@@Tyler-hk4wo Oh well. We're either systematically and consciously learning philosophy or learning it haphazardly and unconsciously.

@tahiyamarome 2 жыл бұрын

facing a terminal cancer diagnosis at 55, in the time of covid, and a global environmental devastation, i find my early adoption of camus' perspectives in my 20's stand the real test of life's challenges. There ARE atheists in fox holes. Camus' advice and ideologies caused me to live a life i feel is profoundly satisfying. Because of his writing I face my own shortened life span supremely happy with my personal history. And no, I never had children, pretended at monogamy, had a fancy job, bought a house, or built a large material hoard. For me life has been about love, service, art, and joy. Turns out he was right and i was right to consciously adopt his ideas into life choices.

@SnowyDae55 Жыл бұрын

You know, I've spent so much time dreading accomplishments because I've never felt happy when it's done and I feel like it's expected of me. A party to celebrate graduating is more of a hang out with my friends because I've done it daily over time. I want to laugh because I've felt like "other" or broken because people congratulate me in that instance but I feel out of place. It's comforting to watch this video

@macardona5 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@rosariomusumeci3615 3 жыл бұрын

You are confusing the meaning of 'LOVE' with the meaning of 'love'. It's like saying I have $ 100 but they have not value because they are a counterfeit. But the reason there is a counterfeit is because somewhere else there is the real thing. The existence of something false has a meaning because somewhere there is the real thing. The love that has been presented to us by the materialistic culture or society is the counterfeit of real love ( the spiritual one). Therefore people are growing miserable, they become pray of the illusion that what we thought was real love is in reality a falsification of that love. So, without the real experience of love we start rejecting all together any form of love and conclude that love is simply a fabrication of man to keep us prisoners in a materialistic societal system. Real love is not based on feelings, but on actions to do good for others. The feelings is simply the result of good actions for the benefit of humanity at large. Food for thoughts.

@mauriciocardona2853 3 жыл бұрын

@@rosariomusumeci3615 Thank you for your answer. It is very positive and gives me hope in the better understanding of this concept of "love". However, if real love is not based on feelings, as you say, and yet we are supposed to be able to perceive it somehow, because otherwise we could not talk about it, then the only two alternatives we are left with are: 1) It must be a fabrication of humans (mental construct), not necessarily "to keep us prisoners in a materialistic societal system", but maybe to give some purpose to existence. Which is a noble cause that somehow has lost its way in a materialistic world. 2) It is SOMETHING, not in the realm of feelings but in the realm of things that exist independently of human abstractions or feelings. Something real, as a fact. Then, when you say that "Real love is not based on feelings but it is based on good actions", I assume you accept real love as SOMETHING that comes to life when good human actions are performed. Then, how can we recognize that SOMETHING if not by our senses (feelings)? With all due respect, feelings are essential in the conversation about 'love'. Then, my problem continues to lay on the fact that feelings are subjective and inherent to every person's life (history). So, the tool we have to recognize LOVE is our feelings. I would say that feelings among many of us are a twisted chaotic mess during different stages in our life, so how can we say so easily "follow LOVE no matter what"? Is like sending somebody to do a very specific complicated work without the right tools. The intention is good but riskier than presumed.

@rosariomusumeci3615 3 жыл бұрын

@@mauriciocardona2853 Love is the outcome of desiring the welfare of the other, and acting upon that desire. The feeling which is called love is not actually love as it can easily, and often does, turn into hatred. How many many marriages have ended in this way? The feeling commonly called "love" is actually the feeling of attraction. That doesn't mean that attraction, or that feeling, cannot be combined with love (the act of loving, to care for another being, etc ...) as in good marriages, or good friendships etc. But the two are separate. Really loving people desire the welfare of all living beings. They aren't kind to their dogs and support cruelty and slaughter of farm animals. They aren't just kind to their families, or to people they are attracted to, but all beings. This real love cannot be taken away, or transformed into hatred, as it isn't based on fleeting attraction, which pleases the senses, but a sense of empathy and caring. Thank you for taking the time to express your understanding.

@macardona5 2 жыл бұрын

@@rosariomusumeci3615 I agree. Your thoughts about love are really well tuned. However, most people, on my opinion, do not think like that and that is why reflection on the matter is necessary. Just as we are doing it now 🙂

@rosariomusumeci3615 2 жыл бұрын

@@macardona5 I agree.

@patrickvanmeter2922 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I have felt this way most of my life but tried to complicate it. Thanks for helping me get straight. Makes pefect and simple sense.

@nicholasjaquez1174 3 жыл бұрын

Very great video about Camus 👏

@idaloup6721 3 жыл бұрын

When I watch the videos of KZfaqrs 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.

@lote0278 3 жыл бұрын

Go to sleep, you are drunk

@enterthevoidIi 3 жыл бұрын

People have not been aware of the absurdity of life. Pick 10 people randomly and I guarantee you that at least 8 of them will not think that life is absurd or that it has no meaning.

@Theydonotcare 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@bleh329 Жыл бұрын

I love this philosophy. I knew about it before but forgot about it somewhere along the way, even though it aligns with most of my beliefs. I think I'd like to try living by it...

@steves3422 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty Good - worth a like. Small quibble at the end, #7. Seems Camu may have been rationalizing (being irrational) his affairs and wanderings. Confusing 'love' with 'lust/desire' occurs way too often. A true 'love' recognizes duty to others and yourself. 'Love is our only duty in life' -- maybe state it this way 'Duty is our only love in life' (and a path to meaning) to recognize the rational path not the desirous path. Seems Camu recognized this finally. [Am subscriber and forwarder to aid the channel and others seeking/needing 'philosophies for life'] Thank You!

@themistoclesnelson2163 3 жыл бұрын

You must have known I was going to need this. Thanks!

@anandkhalkho3506 2 жыл бұрын

Albert Camu's philosophy can be summarised in one sentence; life in itself has no meaning but it is your choice to give meaning to it or adopt the meanings given by others. Very true! Albert Einstein also said when asked , " what is the meaning of life". He said, life has no meaning, it is we who give meaning to Life". The conclusion derived from it is that one should give that meaning to Life which creates happiness and health for one self and for others too. Without assigning any meaning to life we cannot create the kind of happiness that we as humans deserve in contrast to animals. So absurdity has less value when the sensitivity of human beings evolve to a higher level giving rise to art, culture, literature, architecture, and even the adventures of ideas such as philosophy.

@E_V878 Жыл бұрын

Camus quite literally advised against giving a meaning to life (much less taking the meaning others give it). He said there’s 3 responses to the absurd: -Physical suicide (giving up on life, concluding that a meaningless life is not worth living) -Philosophical suicide (attributing meaning to life so as to avoid facing the absurd; be it with your own given meaning like existentialists or with the given meaning of others like with organized religions) -Accepting the absurd (facing absurdity and rebelling against it by continuing to live despite knowing your efforts are meaningless)

@matthewdoering1581 3 жыл бұрын

Camus does not say to create your own meaning in life... that is existentialism and is not what Camus believed in..

@adcengineer3090 9 ай бұрын

Bravo ...!

@jeffdunlap2754 2 жыл бұрын

It relieves a lot of pressure when you accept that you live in the midst of random meaninglessness, that life really is absurd, and that's not a bad thing, it's just the way it is. It makes people easier to accept also, because you don't take them all that seriously, and yourself as well. Have a good time, enjoy the incredibleness of existence, and don't trouble yourself with any illusions of control, or that some spiritual entity meant for you to be here so that you could complete some path to enlightenment. If you can let all that go as a bunch of nonsense, along with the savior sinner mentality that is breed into western thought then you are free, and if you end up finding out when you die that there is a spiritual dimension then it will just be a pleasant surprise and there are no punishments for not believing a certain thing in this life.

@dextermorgan7439 Жыл бұрын

I really try to embrace the absurd but my depression is always dragging me to nihilism. I Just can't find the energy to make or to see my own purpose in this life. I think like an absurdist but i live like a nihilist. I hope i will break from this circle one Day. Because now i really feel trapped in my life , my job, my relationship, all the debts.

@yourcornercrackhead5584 Жыл бұрын

I feel the exact same way. If I don’t pull myself together my future is ruined

@saca6382 Жыл бұрын

Great guy, respect!

@silverback7783 8 ай бұрын

Perhaps faith is acceptance by a different word❤😂. This video explains to me a lot about French culture to this day.

@cjbird7121 Жыл бұрын

My 18yo son recently told me my outlook on life was not as a Cheerful Nihilist but as an Absurdist. I arrived there probably from Buddhism, Vedism with as dash of Osho. I’m 53 now and honestly can’t see any other view point to better live and actually enjoy doing it.

@toehead20007 Жыл бұрын

Love this dude

@burtonedwards 2 жыл бұрын

Impressive, adapt, overcome!

@alanchriston6806 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant 😊

@PURPLE_SHADE_SMOOTHIE 2 жыл бұрын

This resonates with my views

@michaelchase5304 2 жыл бұрын

I love the balance between freedom and justice, very sage. "Know ye that the embodiment of liberty and its symbol is the animal. That which beseemeth man is submission unto such restraints as will protect him from his own ignorance, and guard him against the harm of the mischief maker. Liberty causeth man to overstep the bounds of propriety, and to infringe on the dignity of his station. It debaseth him to the level of extreme depravity and wickedness." ~Baha'u'llah

@AnkitVarshneya 2 жыл бұрын

😍🙏 Love it

@aixpress7665 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@siriusedits3058 Жыл бұрын

this feels like it’s appeared at a good time for me to watch…i’ve been struggling with working at school and honestly it makes me desperately unhappy. I have to say i’ve been a little torn between trying my hardest at something which makes me so burnt out and depressed to achieve something i don’t care a whole deal about and trying my best to get the amazing grades i’m capable of and please my friends and my family but being desperately unhappy and depressed. i know it might sound silly but i’ve always seen school as an absurd concept and i can’t see how it’s qualifications will have any real meaning in my life but everybody around me disapproves of my style of thinking but ultimately i just want to be happy and it seems silly to actively strive for the opposite effect. nonetheless i’m torn between making myself happy and others happy

@Alex.R.L 2 жыл бұрын

"On this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true." - Albert Camus, The Plague

@lakshmanvajjakeshavula5380 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks dude

@lizzygrant5546 Жыл бұрын

I love Camus soo much. I’m soo sad I will never be able to meet him but it is what it is.

@edholohan 2 жыл бұрын

Life is just a bowl of cherries Don't take it serious Life's too mysterious You work, you save, you worry so But you can't take your dough When you go, go, go Keep repeating, it's the berries The strongest oak must fall The best things in life to you were just loaned So how can you lose what you never owned Life is just a bowl of cherries So live and laugh at it all Keep repeating, it's the berries You know the strongest oak has got to fall The sweet things in life to you were just loaned So how can you lose what you never owned Life is just a bowl of cherries So live it, love it, wriggle your ears And think nothing of it, you can't do without it There's no two ways about it You live and you laugh at it all.

@calvinma9493 Жыл бұрын

you need a fire beat with this art piece

@davidantczak8590 3 жыл бұрын

Certainly not perfect as whole life philosophy but some great elements within. Take what resonates and move on.

@rogercarroll2551 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. So much to agree with in Camus' theories, but a good deal to view as universally questionable in the praticals. I would NOT want Camus as my therapist.

@hpbestialtroublemaker426 3 жыл бұрын

YESSSS THANKS

@debo1a 3 жыл бұрын

Gratitude

@MegaJohnnycage 3 жыл бұрын

Lock-down in Melbourne (again!) in my apartment & working from home, no problem with being alone here. Being alone becomes being lonely pretty damn quickly.

@ferahsudenazulusoy4553 2 жыл бұрын

You feel lonely in such a beautiful city!