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 года назад

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 года назад

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@satnamo 3 года назад

Camus is ancient, lh!

@hellavadeal 3 года назад

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

@pinkfloyd9038 3 года назад

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 года назад

Unexamined life is not worth living plato....

@correspondencecommittee5746 2 года назад

“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 Год назад

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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QmHXYhpEDfM.html

@ICEcoldJT 3 года назад

“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 года назад

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

@t.v.k.1675 3 года назад

That is Stoicism

@mooy7745 3 года назад

I concur.

@voraxity965 3 года назад

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

@crypticcoding9680 3 года назад

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

@jon9221 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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 Год назад

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

@robbanks7390 Год назад

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

@quad7375 Год назад

@@JamieJacksonati If anyone likes these philosophical thoughts I would love to get perspectives on a philosophy that says goes in a different direction. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QmHXYhpEDfM.html

@manbeezis Год назад

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

@Bga1412 2 года назад

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 года назад

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

@quad7375 Год назад

I would love to get perspectives on a philosophy that says goes in a different direction. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QmHXYhpEDfM.html

@FuckYouTube1776 Год назад

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 года назад

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

@AvadoNMod 3 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

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

@scottthomas5819 2 года назад

absolutely !

@andyappleton3353 2 года назад

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

@effylabrado8230 Год назад

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 месяцев назад

You are so ahead of the curve

@luiscastro-my3iw 10 месяцев назад

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 месяцев назад

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

@retrophonicbotique 5 месяцев назад

Unbelievably intelligent for your age.

@martingoldfire 5 месяцев назад

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 года назад

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

@jamesbyrne9312 3 года назад

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

@sonoflillith1 2 года назад

Sounds like a quote from Olaf the snowman.

@joeshepherd6419 2 года назад

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

@AmarNanavati 2 года назад

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

@WallaceAJenkins 2 года назад

@@joeshepherd6419 who hurt you?

@AFMMarcelD 2 года назад

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

@aganib4506 Год назад

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.

@LivingALifeOfAbundance 3 года назад

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 года назад

Well said boss

@LivingALifeOfAbundance 3 года назад

@@scorqio salute bro!

@rajorshitapas1623 3 года назад

Well said boss

@tomdenizensadang9763 3 года назад

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

@vidalskyociosen3326 3 года назад

Make it simple mind your life.

@drianingenson920 3 года назад

I would love a coffee with Camus in the void

@pranavm.d457 2 года назад

😂😂🤣👍

@Skanking-Corpse 7 месяцев назад

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 года назад

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 Год назад

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

@dhul-qarnaynmonir7306 Год назад

True

@MITMathematica 3 года назад

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-

@victoriagolden8117 3 года назад

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

@peytonquinn3095 2 года назад

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

@bruh-en3ti Год назад

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.

@Reymundodonsayo 3 года назад

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 года назад

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

@RajeshSingh-zg7gj 2 года назад

Me too

@theunfortunateguy8348 2 года назад

Thank Goodness I'm a Pessimistic Nihilist!

@theaveragefryingpan 4 месяца назад

@@theunfortunateguy8348Wha why

@sangarios54 2 года назад

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.

@garyhughes1664 3 года назад

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

@ericjohn277 2 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

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

@ericjohn277 2 года назад

@@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 года назад

@@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 года назад

@@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.

@jempierre2777 2 года назад

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

@marko6168 2 года назад

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

@dextermorgan7439 Год назад

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

@yao199 3 года назад

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

@rumit9946 2 года назад

You need to learn spelling

@carlosclassic5851 2 года назад

@@rumit9946 English teacher?

@N7spongy 2 года назад

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 года назад

@@rumit9946 you need to learn meme language.

@igorlevch7968 2 года назад

spongebob cave man face

@winterramos4527 3 года назад

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

@Diana-gt1rv 3 года назад

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 года назад

Glad for you!

@macardona5 3 года назад

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 года назад

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

@macardona5 3 года назад

@@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 года назад

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

@lorenzogumier7646 3 года назад

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

@mikec6733 3 года назад

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

@Aku-ut8mn Год назад

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

@jeffreylewis8019 2 года назад

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

@georgianawhite412 2 года назад

Yes, I laughed at this, too.

@taoapparel2563 2 года назад

Hahaha ❤️

@AndorranStairway Год назад

"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

@scottbarber2736 3 года назад

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 года назад

Zacly

@4Seaofthoughts Год назад

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.

@lakshmitummala 2 года назад

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

@mreclecticguy 3 года назад

Excellent summary. Thank you.

@4ksilentwalk485 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this lesson. 🙏

@florencekokoris 3 года назад

I just love your work. Thank you.

@michael_leclezio 2 года назад

Thank you. Very insightful!!

@saidmouinet 2 года назад

Simply GREAT. Thanks a lot !

@rummanz 3 года назад

beautifully explained.thank you...great video.

@SamuraiKidMusic 3 года назад

This was well presented and informative. Thank you!

@atanacioluna292 6 месяцев назад

Thanks! I love your summary.

@rein29233 Год назад

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

@philipnestor5034 3 года назад

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 года назад

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

@matthewdoering1581 3 года назад

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

@bolt8987 3 года назад

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

@highstakes1235 3 года назад

So glad you brought this out

@marianne7053 2 года назад

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

@gawaineross6119 2 года назад

This is a clear and professional presentation. Thanks!

@riversideselfstudy4926 4 месяца назад

really excellent work. compelled me to appreciate it

@vacysmotuzas4267 2 года назад

Very great video about Camus. Thanks ...

@curtismckiernan6640 Год назад

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.

@pipex4548 8 месяцев назад

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

@SVSP1976 8 месяцев назад

Excellently experienced and extremely educatively exciting.

@silverback7783 8 месяцев назад

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

@patrickvanmeter2922 2 года назад

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.

@praveenModlier 3 года назад

Well researched and compiled.

@PDN11141 2 года назад

Love the process of learning.

@SnowyDae55 Год назад

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

@shreyasnshkumar3570 Год назад

Thank you. Good work.

@user-ru8ts8nr1p 2 года назад

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.

@rocketsinghism 3 года назад

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

@macardona5 3 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

@@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 года назад

@@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 года назад

@@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 года назад

@@macardona5 I agree.

@bleh329 Год назад

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...

@starlight27277 3 года назад

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 года назад

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 года назад

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

@faithalessandri1879 3 года назад

Love this video!!! 🥰👍🏻❤💯

@steves3422 3 года назад

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!

@caramason56 2 года назад

Inspiring and brilliant 😊👍

@seraalberich51 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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”.

@nicholasjaquez1174 3 года назад

Very great video about Camus 👏

@stevepayne5965 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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

@stevepayne5965 Год назад

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

@idaloup6721 3 года назад

When I watch the videos of RU-vidrs 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 года назад

Go to sleep, you are drunk

@enterthevoidIi 3 года назад

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.

@scott8957 2 года назад

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

@michaelchase5304 2 года назад

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

@Theydonotcare 3 года назад

Thank you.

@ayliea3974 3 года назад

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 года назад

We need it now more than ever.

@hobihope2981 3 года назад

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

@Gk2003m 2 года назад

Too many religious nuts would object to it

@Tyler-hk4wo 2 года назад

Yeah religious parents would definitely rebel against it.

@ayliea3974 2 года назад

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

@themistoclesnelson2163 3 года назад

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

@cjbird7121 Год назад

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.

@jeffdunlap2754 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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 Год назад

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

@adcengineer3090 9 месяцев назад

Bravo ...!

@saca6382 Год назад

Great guy, respect!

@anandkhalkho3506 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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)

@siriusedits3058 Год назад

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 года назад

"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

@silverback7783 8 месяцев назад

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

@vincentrockel1149 9 дней назад

Love is not something you can declare if what you undertake in it's name hurts others carelessly and needlessly.

@ariaca7720 3 года назад

This philosophy really hits hard

@burtonedwards 2 года назад

Impressive, adapt, overcome!

@davidantczak8590 3 года назад

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

@rogercarroll2551 3 года назад

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.

@tahiyamarome 2 года назад

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.

@lizzygrant5546 Год назад

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

@toehead20007 Год назад

Love this dude

@alanchriston6806 2 года назад

Brilliant 😊

@PURPLE_SHADE_SMOOTHIE 2 года назад

This resonates with my views

@guillermomichael6578 3 года назад

Interesting and instructive video, everything explained in a clear and succinct way. But I have learned that Camus had many problems in the intelectual world in France due to his opposition to communists and Sartre and I think it you have been addressed in the video too. Even there is a theory that the car accident that caused his death was not so accidental.

@guillermomichael6578 2 года назад

@Aiden Logan I understand what you say . but perhaps I did not explained myself clearly before, what I was trying to say is that he criticized the URSS invasion of Hungary, and he named killings thereafter the URSS's KGB minister of the time. And this individual ordered him to be killed. But anyway I think that you are right and his contributions to philosophical thinking are more important than all that. I think that many things attributed to the late Soviet Union were the entire responsibility of some individuals, and I am not in any way criticizing the basis of the Soviet Union's political foundations.

@laurentcherrier8492 2 года назад

It was an accident. No doubt about it in France.

@harryedwardpierce Год назад

So true .

@aixpress7665 3 года назад

Brilliant

@Alexanderthenotsobad 3 года назад

I love the audio content. However, the blinding white background is very difficult to look at or leave on when trying to fall asleep. Not to mention, it just uses slightly more electricity than a darker hue. Many of us in the software development world have slowly, but steadily transitioned to "dark themes" as our eyes get tired from staring at screens all day. Just a thought.

@gwarlow 2 года назад

Perhaps limiting the time spent staring at screens all day might help. Just a thought. Cheers.

@mx.litzix9100 2 года назад

Perhaps close your eyes when trying to fall asleep. Just a thought. Cheers.

@caelanhardwicke3174 2 года назад

Fantastic video, I found the final point "CHOOSE lOVE" especially interesting. I assume this could mean any type of love among the living i.e romantic, familial, friendships, and so on however, do we think this applies only to the love for other living things or does it extend to activities such as hobbies or jobs we love? If so , could be more confusing. When I watched it, it seemed to me that the love for other human beings or living things, is the greatest act of revolt against absurd because as absurdity stresses, life is meaningless so in the act of loving another, this means that you literally attribute so much meaning to that person(s) being alive and vice versa when they love you in return. Point one teaches that we create our own meanings in life (all acts of revolt against absurdity) which for example could be the jobs we choose, things we choose to pursue, or activities we engage in and attribute meaning to. So, in that respect, the "choose love" lesson essentially reads, to me at least, that among all those various meanings in life that we choose and create ourselves over time, "love" for others is the greatest protection and act of defiance against absurd that we can have and so it should be the priority of an absurdist. Am I interpreting this in a way that makes sense or am I missing something vital, would love some feedback here! Thanks so much in advance.

@michael_leclezio 2 года назад

Just be careful and keep you rheart flexible. I fell deeply in love with someone who in the end rejected me, and I made her my meaning as a means to "protect" myself from the absurd, as a refuge. And it has been the hardest breakup of my life. I thought I had finally found a safe haven from the agony that the absurd can be. I'm still struggling with it and am hoping she will love me again.

@quad7375 Год назад

@@michael_leclezio So with that struggle let me know what you think about a philsophy that kinda goes in a different direction but speaks on meaning still. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QmHXYhpEDfM.html