everyone so today i would like to
introduce you guys to french philosopher
Albert Albert Camus was born in France
Algeria. He was born  november seventh nineteen
thirteen and died in january fourth
1960. Albert Camus was not only a
philosopher but also a Nobel Prize
Winner in French literature
he's famously know through his work The
Stranger, the Myth of Sisyphus and The Plague his
idea was first introduced in the
stranger in the stranger the main character
Meursault,  who does not see the reason of
engaging in love friendship or even
family as the opening of the novel
states
Maman died today or yesterday maybe I don't
know Meursault's inability to act according
to social expectation and lack of moral
values made him a stranger to the society
Meursault was later on set to death
as he accidentally shoot death an Arab man, but also
partially at the same time because
his lack of  values and inability to act as the
social ideals
now you might ask "wait how is this philosophical?"
In Camus second book the myth of sisyphus
he then introduces his idea of the
absurd according to Camus the absurd can be
divided into two major points, first life is meaningless,
which leads to the second point that however
one must try their best to find or
create meaning in this meaningless world, the absurd lie neither in the
world nor in man but rather the
confrontation between both its man's
longing for reasons and meaning in life
and the silence from the world
Camus also claimed that in this
meaningless world
death is the only thing that we can be
sure certain about.
In the beginning of the myth of sisyphus
Camus pointed out the fundamental of
philosophy as there's but only one truly
serious philosophical problem that is
suicide
judging whether life is or is not worth
living
that is the fundamental question of philosophy. Now you
might think "Oh Camus is an existentialist!
like Sartre and Nietzsche." I would say that this statement is
partially correct as similar to
existentialism the absurd started
acknowledged inevitable death the abscence
of afterlife and the absurd of religious
system the reason why I say it's
partially right because even though Camus believes
that death as inescapable he also
believes that one should still live the
best out of it the absurd is not only the
realization of the irrational and
meaninglessness, but rather, willing to live with
the conscious that life indeed has no meaning
it is up to us to create meaning in life
this idea is illustrated in great details in the actual Myth of Sisyphus
the actual myth talks about
Sisyphus, who was punished in his
afterlife by God that he has to keep
rolling a giant rock uphill for the rest of eternity
however whenever he's about to reach the top the
rows back and he had to start all over again
even though this might seem like an endless
torture, Camus said " it is during that return
that pause, that Sisyphus interests me
that is the hour of consciousness to Camus,
it is not a punishment condemned Sisyphus
but rather it is his awareness and consciousness of
the endless repeated acts that condemned him
however later on Camus said "at each of
those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks...
he is superior to his faith"
"he is stronger than his rock...the lucidity that was to constitute his torture
at the same time crown his victory"
by embracing this conscious of endless trial
which also symbolizes the meaninglessness of life and
willing to go against logic and revolt
then one will finally arrived to the Absurd Freedom
And it is in those times, "His fate belongs to him"
Willingness to live in a meaningless and irrational world and create our own meaning, "make fate a human matter,
which must be settled among men"
