Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | Imagining Sisyphus Happy | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Albert Camus' early work, The Myth of Sisyphus, and specifically on his discussion about why we must imagine Sisyphus happy, even though he is condemned to an eternity of seemingly pointless labor as a punishment from the gods.
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Dr. Sadler, have you considered shortening your intro, or putting it at the back of the video?
Random Guy Nope.
Anything to say about the actual video?
@Devotin I'll certainly assume you do, though - the intent to meddle and lecture
One of my favourite philosophy.
Yeah Me too.Just Amazing!
Never, in my life, have I heard a more perfectly enunciated (american) English pronunciation of the name. Just wild articulate, in this one. Mashallah.
Thanks!
Thank you for all the good work.
The acting part of sisyphus is great. 😂
Glad you enjoyed it
I found this incredibly interesting. Thanks for the lecture !
You're welcome!
Great video just finished reading the essay, these few videos have been great complementary material thank you!
Glad they're helpful - I'll be creating more down the line on this text
Love it also thanks for breaking it down
You're very welcome!
Really enjoying your videos Dr. Sadler. I’m trying to understand how the imperative to imagine Sisyphus as happy is not itself a “leap” beyond the absurd. Seems to me that behind that imperative is a transcendental value.
Well, you could always read that section on the text
These videos are great. I plan on reading it but the language is a little off. So getting a summary hopefully will help put it all into context.
Glad they're helpful for you
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You're welcome - and thank you!
Bravo Sir
Thanks!
Thanks professor, are you planing on discussing "The rebel"?
Mi Go eventually, yes
@@GregoryBSadler great, can't wait!
What is his punishment....he has to have a 9 to 5 job for decades of his life....and why do I like lifting weights....up they go, down they go. Sisyphus should say "YEA" to this eternal re-occurrence, and enjoy the challenge of the opposition. He could become the original rock and roller. “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Even a 9 to 5 job would likely have more things of interest than that endless rolling the boulder!
@@GregoryBSadler Yes, you are right. And I should not be comparing a lifetime of employment to working in a concentration camp. But one has to have a reason, a purpose for what one does. One way to joyfully assert the absurd, in a Neitszchian way. Sounds good on paper. I don't think it is a long term (lifetime) answer. I think one should identify ones mission, and assign a lifelong task to ones self. Like trying to be wise. But what happens if one's success in life sometimes seems so limited , that while one never thought the orientation was faulty, the actualization of potential was.
@@MrMarktrumble Yeah but Camus' suggestion in the essay to live life without hope for the present and present only. We can have ambitions and goals and work towards them but I believe to live as an Absurd hero, we must maintain a certain detachment from our pursuit, recognize that we are just serving a role and all the while smile.
@@spacewad8745 I should reread the book to see if he says we live with out hope in the present only. I do not remember that.
I'm sure Khepri doesn't find it absurd.
"It' what?