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Eternalised

The Absurd – Camus, Kierkegaard & Dostoevsky | Existentialism

Nov 2, 2020
12:00

This episode explores the concept of The Absurd of Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky as well as the differences between these three existentialists.   

Camus defined the Absurd as: "The conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life, and the human inability to find any meaning in a purposeless, meaningless, and irrational universe, with the ‘unreasonable silence’ of the universe in response.” 

However, this world in itself is not absurd, what is absurd is our relationship with the universe, which is irrational.  He contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as Absurdism. 

Most famously expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus, which begins with the following thought-provoking statement: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”  

Camus argued against the “leap of faith” of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky considering it as “philosophical suicide”. His response to the absurd is to revolt, which he considers as the only coherent philosophical position.

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━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Camus' view (1:53) Kierkegaard’s view (4:20) Dostoevsky’s view (6:57) The Absurd Man - Camus (7:57) Revolt – Camus (10:13) An Example of Rebellion: The Drowned and The Saved


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