Camus, Suicide and the Myth of the Sisyphus

Camus, Suicide and the Myth of the Sisyphus

Most of you will know Albert Camus` - The Myth of the Sisyphus, if you dont google it for a second, its not all that com

24 January 2009 at 05:37 AM
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by craig1120

It’s a critical error to undervalue meaning the way you do. It’s even worse to actively encourage other people to do the same.

You can't just launch these ideas without substance behind them. Why is it a critical error? In what way do I undervalue meaning?


by wazz

You can't just launch these ideas without substance behind them. Why is it a critical error? In what way do I undervalue meaning?

Fair enough. I take it back. I see that you’re right and politics is where all attention should be focused.


by craig1120

Fair enough. I take it back. I see that you’re right and politics is where all attention should be focused.

Glad you've seen the light. I am genuinely trying to tell you that these existential problems have been problems for me and they've largely been solved (if replaced by others) by stopping trying to find the answer and instead focussing on the material world and its problems, i.e. reading about anthropology / history / politics / psychology / economics etc. Studying fictional problems like this one is a way of avoiding reality. Reality focusses the mind.


by Zeno

Sartre said many things, some rather silly; some not. But one thing he said I found interesting: Hell is other people.

-Zeno

Interdasting.


Check out The wisdom of Insecurity by Alan watts. Audiobook if you rather as I do. Costs 9.99 or thereabouts. Thank me later.

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