How To Live Freely In This Meaningless World - Albert Camus (Philosophy Of Absurdism)
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- In this video we will be talking about how to be free from the philosophy of Albert Camus. Albert Camus is one of the most representative figures of the philosophy of the “absurd” or “absurdism".
The main theory of Camus is to embrace the absurdity of life as a simple fact, without falling into despair. This ability to embrace absurdity means to be free. According to Camus, there are 2 types of freedom: Common Freedom, defined as the ability to choose between different options - for example, whether to take a glass of water from the table or not - and Absurd Freedom, the ability to live a life without meaning. For Camus, Absurd Freedom is true freedom. In a world without meaning, individuals can discover that they can do whatever they want, while still taking full responsibility for their actions.
Without any legitimate pressure from other people, society and so on, we can learn to only follow our inner motivations and personal values. Reaffirming this power coming from such an inner freedom, we as individuals thus create our own meaning of life.
So to help you understand how to be more free, we bring you 7 ways to live freely from the philosophy of Albert Camus:
01. Believe in freedom
02. Fight for freedom
03. Be creative
04. Act rebellious
05. Be free but lawful
06. Acknowledge the negative sides of your freedom
07. Use your freedom to improve yourself
I hope you enjoyed watching these 7 ways you can be free from the philosophy of Albert Camus and find them helpful in 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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Albert Camus says “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion”.
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Riddle me this, how can advocate for freedom when asking for more censorship? You can't have both they are mutually exclusive. Just like how on Twitter you have the mute button each individual person has the power to stop negative feed back. You don't need the government or a top down system censoring people who you don't like. Because just like everything else you give the government, leftist, progressives,... An inch they'll put you against a wall eventually.
I think the existentialists had a good grasp on life and philosophy. What good is philosophy of it is not helping us understand ourselves better
🙏🏽 so true
He wasn’t an existentialist… do your research!
True He was not an existentialist but is considered one by the teacher if Philosophy. Most Modern Philosophers consider Camus to be a poor Existentialist and undisciplined. Only recently (past 20 years or so) has Absurdism come to its own. The best thing about philosophy is the dialogue back and forth the coming to an agreement together. Not just harsh statements to demonstrate how right you are and how terribly wrong the other person is.
Philosophy is the love of WISDOM not the love of words. Wisdom is knowledge in action.
HOW VERY MUCH I needed to find this video tonight. I had no idea how much I love Albert Camus. YAY! ❤👏
Thank you for reminding us of this brilliant being and his philosophy!
Thank you so much for this. Camus and Kierkegaard (and Kafka and Dostoevsky) were such huge influences on me in early adulthood. You have such a wonderful, meaningful summation of these ideas. I really appreciate it.
Wonderful, meaningful summation? I think not.
Brilliant timing! I got curious with Camus a week ago. Thanks for the video, cheers!
Loved your other Camus videos and this one is awesome as well, thanks!
Camus has Awesome insights 🎯.
As an Artist 🎨 I find this Deep Philosophical thought process necessary for recreation/living a curated life.
Rebellion against Societal Conveyor Belts Pressure is one form of real Freedom when one takes Full Responsibility and thrives on their own terms & Lane in Life.🎇
This is sooooooo helpful for me this very minute. I’m going though some stuff, and this is helping me to cope.
Ditto.
"The absurd is everywhere every corner every street you see the absurd somehere"- Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus
Did you look in the mirror ?
Thank u Nietzsche
so , bored from staring into the abyss ?
@@meriemcullen8510 "ff you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you"
@@friedrichnietzsche2557 "but if you gaze long enough you will see the glimmer of hope you just didnt gaze long enough "
~~jordan B peterson ^^
good luck in becoming an ubermensh my fella lol
Excellent video, what i needed to hear.
Thanks for posting
One of my FAVORITES love this, 🤲🏽
I hope that Camus's ideas will be globally viable in this very controversial existence!
That's so deep that I now have at least 19 tiny post-it notes on it. I WILL MAKE THESE THE RULES I LIVE BY.
(I can't believe I just agreed mindlessly to this video but man do I agree with it.)
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you!
Wonderful ideas thought by Camus, why some people have exceptional thoughts than others? What makes them so to even question their civilization, culture and religion
ya that's right freedom lies in what we can control and what we can't like stoicism said
I prefer the Epicurean approach that freedom lies in letting go the illusion of control and find equanimity
Awesomeness
Simply brilliant .
This indeed sounded absurd until about the 3 minute mark, glad I didnt stop watching.
Thanks
Theater. Benefits. Love your videos.
How do we as a society judge what is wrong and right when it comes to information. Who gets to choose what is considered right or wrong.
Exactly...You don't give one of the man's rules- Freedom of speech, no matter what. Then, follow it up with a censorship opinion. I had to hit the comments, glad I found at least one person who objected.
Philosophy can help us judge - if information is harmful to people -(such as hate speech) that isn't just or fair.
Is murder right or wrong?
Those words are inspiring and emotional. Listening to this while going home from overtime work. Thank you as always.
Me too!
Take care @@chemquests
✌️, 💕 And 🙏 Blessing's....
Instead of labeling peoples ideas as 'misinformation', we need to encourage people to explore ideas. Then educate them about how media from the left and the right can manipulate. Our education system grooms the youth, but doesnt show them to think critcally or question the status quo. THAT is dangerous with todays society.
Education system is designed to produce slaves, for capitalism to reign.
I'd go even further and say critical thinking should be made part of every teaching curriculum and should be compulsory like maths and language from 6yrs old onwards
Authoritarianism rules in the UK! 🤐🤐🤐
Always good to see discussion of Camus but this sounded like Ayn Rand's interpretation. Quite absurd!
I'm here because all the absudism video I've watch is so confusing, I hope this one makes me understand
Damn, now I do
Anyone wanna guess how many times the world freedom was used in this video?
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2:52 why did i burst out laughing
plz make video on Hume's view of suicide.
I laughed once and they turned me in
“fake news” and “abuse”
and how exactly do we determine what constitutes this? who is and isnt allowed to be censored? when are we justified in saying “this persons freedom of speech is the wrong kind of freedom?”
preaching absurdism and speaking on camus and simultaneously trying to justify censorship on the internet is hilariously off base.
Every single philosophy channel is interested in camus now.
It's ww3 boys.
(Avengers theme plays)
You had me until censorship and “misinformation.” Yes we should definitely get a Ministry of Truth lol
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Remember this: 99.9% of life is opinion. One person's logical is someone else's crazy.
My opinion…99.9% of life is independent of what we think of it
@@chemquests As my great -great - granddaddy used to say, "we see what we look for; it's just a d@%n shame how often we are shortsighted!"
The concept of fact checking is itself an impingement of free speech and free thought. When you weigh reality you have to concede that there are going to be discrepancies. When you construct walls around ideas you disrupt the flow. If misinformation becomes adopted then in all likelihood it holds some grain of Truth. Ultimately individuals with the ability to comprehend the complexities will suss out any obvious lie.
Impingement
Discrepancies
Holdin grains
Suss out
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@@mrstoner2udude799 you have to be able to understand the concept of doublethink in order to not be manipulated by it. Broader truths are on a scale and within it there are inconvenient details which are omitted or debunked in a sense to unclutter the message that is trying to be conveyed. Misinformation in itself is information in that it's the negative aspect which is necessary to understand the positive aspect.
Thanks for this! I just made a comment about how i think its very misleading to include "Protecting people from Fake News and Abuse" in Camus work concerning Freedom of speech as if it is something he would endorse. Its quite disgusting.
If there is a lot of misinformation and lies online without any repercussions then it is becasue the Govt endorses it and when thats the case no amount of censorship can help people online. It will be a slow and painful death of intellectual discourse online such as what we are witnessing now.
Speech must be free becasue that is the only way good ideas can survive by their own merits and bad ideas die, censorship is a means of subsidizing bad ideas so they survive on Govt or private interest support.
@@morbidbushido You said it much better than I did. Glad you were able to help add clarification because that's exactly what I was getting at.
It's absurd how many adds can fit into one video
Too much of the channel owner's personal beliefs or ideas were included in this video.
Sorry but I am going to move on to find out find Albert kamu himself all his opinions and modern day applications I do not need or want Thanks anyway nothing personal
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And who shall decide what is fake news or misinformation? From whom do the fact checkers receive payment?
I think its quite disgusting for the author of this essay to sneak in "Protecting people from Fake News and Abuse" when speaking of freedom of speech in the digital age because that means censorship. That is NOT what Camu envisioned with his philosophy, it is clear in his work that freedom of speech comes with its own downside but that does not mean we should compromise it in any way.
Absurdity and meaninglessness are all you can count on. Camus was cool, but I find that Einsteins field equations and the laws of physics are also cool. Revolt against the absurdity, and be free like me. Lol.
Not gonna happen in authoritarian countries, which ironically are the most absurd.
Not great to Reinterpret Camus to push an Agenda.
Not disagreeing (or agreeing) but please cite examples.
Right? Protect freedom of speech, but we need selective censorship controlled by someone. That was really dissapointing.
@@lawrencemanning "Protecting people from Fake News and Abuse" has no place in Camus belief in Freedom of Speech, thats the author sneaking in their ideas for what free speech should look like in todays world.
This video was sponsored by the Cabal I guess. How embarassing to hear you butcher Camus so it fits the current mindset. CZcams and social media censorship is acceptable... to protect us. The White House, WHO and CDC will be happy. This no philosophy of absurdity this the philosophy of authoritarian bullshit as always justified by "the greater good"
Nihilims.....
Killing the meaning of life for personal freedom.
I didn't watch the whole thing because it's absurd. ;)
Shit flows downhill
Strongly disagree with most of this
Who are you?... and what kind of interpretation of Camus' philosophy is censorship of non-MSM information? Back to your books, my friend. You need to go back to summer school and re-read your Camus! (While you're at it, re-read your Orwell, too.)
There is no freedom without God/Jesus Christ, nor any true philosophy or meaning in life.
How did ya make such a bad video about this
Very amateurish, with glaring spelling errors in the cartoon lettering notation. Far too simplistic analysis of Camus’ thought and the application of his philosophy, as if this video had been made for pre-teens. Far better material available online.👎
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@@souravghosh3913 Do your own homework … 👨🎓
@@LANCSKIDLOL what a cry baby
@@AwakenZen I cry tears of despair for the lack of integrity I experience around me every day …
@@LANCSKID Sounds about right
This video = the viewpoint of the Republican Party