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It has been said that that the sisyphus myth is not all about pushing a rock for all eternity but that he also gets to enjoy his walk back down the mountain to retrieve the rock. So while life may be a struggle and futile it can still be enjoyable in between struggles.

I always liked philosophy, but Camus really ignited a fire in me. Thanks to The Myth of Sisyphus I really got into literature. Camus was the one who introduced me to the works of Dostoevsky and Kafka.

I had a philosophy professor who literally wrote a book on Camus' Absurdity 'Beyond Absurdity'' by Dr. Robert Trundle and Ramakrishna Puligandli), this professors doctoral professor was Hazel Barnes (English translator of Sartre's "Being and Nothingness".) As good as this professor was (one of my absolute best teachers in my entire schooling), this video's explanation was by far the most clear and concise overview of Camus I have EVER heard!

'In the midst of winter I found there was within me an endless summer'. Having lived a lot of my childhood in violent darkness, in adulthood I eventually found light which I learned was always there. Where the actual quote comes in 'the stranger' resonates deep with me. There were some good times. They help to keep the darkness at bay.

I especially like the ending. Telling of the purposes he found for himself.
I like cooking over the fire and planting fruit trees. #BringbackEden

"....life itself is the biggest gift and that's what matters. "
Well said.

Reason is not prerequisite for life; biological life is a mindless system developed in the universe, perhaps, 'to know itself'.

Its not the pursuit of happiness but the pursuit of love and peace that gives you happiness.

His book The Rebel has had a massive influence on me. I don't claim to fully understand it but I think as a novice I've absorbed a substantial amount of the book's ideas, especially the importance of the rebel for the health of a culture and without them there tends to be stagnation and in many cases a regression to a primitive mentality. The one line that struck me comes in the first page where it states that: The rebel slave says yes and no simultaneously. At first I didn't understand this and it seemed to be contradictory action, but then I got it and it concerns the principles of the rebel that keeps them focused and free from dogmatic traps. They have to be in a position to see the traps, always wary of their allure to compromise and break them. At one time I read The Rebel once a year and always found a passage that took on a new perspective as my own perspectives widened.

Life doesn't need meaning. It just is.

Thanks for all the rock pushing. Great job.

I think it's probably the healthiest to experience whatever emotions your experiencing. Even absurd happiness. I tend to agree, though.

It's only the dead who know the end of war....George Santayana

Absolutely fantastic!  The best I have ever heard or read so far about the essence, philosophy and analysis of Albert Camus’ prominent books and essays.  This helps me understand more about Marxism and Nihilisme.  I choose Absurdity which I found closer to the concept of impermanence in Buddhism.  What counts is the road - not the end or destination. Thank you very much.  Je vous remercie.

If you read Camus in French it is very simple writing and not highly complex. His book "The Plague" is a book about a community that is walled in and how they cope with it. I don't know as far about happiness but as far a being a good writer I would agree.

Thanks a million for these videos! They are so unique and helpful for people like me who wants to understand great minds and their works.

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The meaning in life is created, and not found.

Nothing's better than reading camus' works in the beaches of Algiers