Introduction to Camus: The Absurd, Revolt, and Rebellion
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2016
- In this video we introduce the thought of Albert Camus, including his ideas on the absurdity of existence, revolt, rebellion, and freedom.
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
My favorite Camus quote.
I'm pretty sure Camus never said that
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Taken from yahoo answers:
"Don’t walk behind me: I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me: I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
- Misattributed to Albert Camus
After conducting a year-long investigation on this quote, scrummaging through everything written by Camus ever made available to the public… It’s safe to say that Camus never said this. My investigation concluded when I met Joel Calmettes, a Camus expert and documentary director. This guy knows everything about Camus. He is also good friends with Catherine Camus (Camus’ daughter), who is responsible for the posthumous publications of Camus’ works. I asked him about this quote along with several other quotes that have been dubiously attributed to Camus. He was baffled. He had never heard of any of these quotes.
The words appear in the lyrics to a Jewish children’s song, although I’m not sure if the lyrics predate Camus’ misquotation or vice versa:
Don’t walk in front of me. I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me. I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
And together we will walk in the ways of Hashem."
If Camus said it first this is not a misattribution.
DieHardGooner you will follow !!!
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" (The Rebel)
I bet he's the kind of guy whom if criticized for being absurd, smiles victoriously.
Perhaps he wouldn't smile but cry.
One would imagine Camus happy
I bet he’s the kind of guy that loves football
True
To my knowledge, that did happen, actually.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion” greatest quote ever that became my life motto
This comment could easily have been me. Great quote that's part of a life transformation in away for me. An attitude change that brought more meaning to me not less. Absurd as that might be
This video felt like it gave me some ability to articulate some very overwhelming feelings I was having. Thank you.
Existentialism is the best drug I have ever done
@Axel Faure Who cares. We all gonna die and there's no sequel to it.
Life has no purpose. Neither it has any meaning.
Now lets fight in comments.
@@Roy-mk9zl ok
@@Roy-mk9zl The meaning of life and nature of reality is really anything you put in your mindset.
Axel Faure duuuuuuuuuude chill out. "as a self-apprentice of stoicism"... you sound like your seeking recognition for the fact that your a stoic and have some lust for social recognition...
@@philipdimatteo the contradiction of his comment about proving that hes stoic while attempting to prove himself in youtube comments is proof of the absurd lmao
We've just got to imagine Sisyphus happy I suppose...
How absurd.
Ikr like why imagine him happy? Why can't we imagine him sad? There's nothing wrong with sysiphus being sad. It basically means that he is human
@@meritu985 where’s the utility in that especially when we can’t escape the climb. The stones heavier if you choose to see through the sadness lense. It’s all perspective I guess
Precise, clear, and thoughtful!
+Sisyphus 55 You make great videos too.
Dude your videos are fantastic! Please keep uploading.
Are you a PhD or something? I ask because your videos are extremely insightful and clear-minded, a pleasure to watch. I mean, you know what you are talking about, even on the ideas requiring deep examination on the subject. This is something very rare to see, specially in a field as Philosophy, where people constantly make profound ideas into shallow ones on their interpretations.
+Pharaoh Imhotep I'm not a PhD. This channel's the work of two of us. We just really enjoy learning and sharing, what we think, is important knowledge which is being drowned out in modern society.
+Academy of Ideas Congratulations for both of you for this amazing channel. As an suggestion, it would be interesting to watch a video of yours about the relationship between Qualia and Solipsism, on the context of Western Philosophy.
+Pharaoh Imhotep That sounds like a very interesting topic! We do have a set list to get to, but I'll keep it in mind.
+Academy of Ideas Wow, very humanitarian of you!
Yes, I definitely noted this myself. Impressive understanding of ideas and expressions of these which may be difficult to interpret.
Life is like Meursault, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stranger.
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On a philosophical level, I disagree with this statement completely. What doesn't kill might just as ready make you weaker than you were before. Constant tribulations, doesn't always a strong person make. While the idea is/was intend (at least in my opinion) to be a way to view the world through adversity, adversity also can drain one of willpower and drive. Now making it easy is no better than this either. As with many things I think a balance ought to be struck between adversity and achievement defining future chances of success.
Steve2323ZX 🔥!!!!
@Shards of Shattered Halos Lacerate My Skinand it still applies.
David My last name. U can be made stranger and weaker simultaneously
@@matthewevans3718 lol right
This is absolutely my favourite channel on UA-cam. I give thumbs up for your videos before even watching them and have never been disappointed.
True. So much learning. :)
You might also like The School of Life and Philosophy Tube :)
+Will Molloy I follow the same! :o :D Their presentations may be a bit more fun or try to incorporate pop culture, but in terms of quotes and serious content, I think this channel has an advantage. Though, admittedly, I follow those more.
The Crimson Frenzy yeah tbf I'd agree with that. But still, I've found their videos to be informative.
I've had dissociations with the world as I know it. It feels like death fear at the threshold. I felt myself sink into an abyss. There is an inner infinity. Camu is right that our reason doesn't have the capacity to reach "metaphysical realms" but he is trapped inside of himself. The last step is impossible because it's beyond what you know, what you believe etc... beyond the boundaries of your beliefs. Your beliefs create your world like a psychadelic drug. Learning is an impossible thing we do. We create impossibilities.
Interesting
this my friend is the truth.
Take more LSD and climb into the phenomenal reality we all inhabit- no seat belts on that Mercy chair. Much Love to you and yours
"If nothing is true then everything is permitted", *eyes widen as one comes to the understanding that the Assassin's were nihilists and you shouldn't have stabbed all those Borgias*
It's actually in the game, the acknowledgement of how absurd it is. In AC Revelations, Altair realises the true meaning of the phrase and how absurd it is, and says that most Assassins won't be able to truly comprehend the implications of it (I believe Camus was referencing Nietzsche, who argued that to ascend humanity, ALL morality had to be forgotten).
In a way, instead of the common belief that the Assassins and Templar conflict being about freedom VS order, it was about Nietzsche's Herrenmoral vs Sklavenmoral.
Ubisoft does great stuff like this. Yet it never lasts. A great shame.
Yes, not enough camus videos! recently thinking about camus and just found your channel from another video.
thanks for the content, subscribed
"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
thank you!!! your introduction videos are so amazing & EXTREMELY helpful. i am in love with your channel
This may be the best channel on UA-cam. Amazing work!
Awesome video! Thanks so much for your hard work and preparation in producing these.
Fantastic. This channel has been an integral part of my journey and awakening.
Beautiful work! This guy hits the nail right on the head and I love that last quote! "... Ones very existence is an act of rebellion."
...and I'd add : My every drawn breath an insult , an un- scratchable itch in the livid , festering , nether- regions of the tyrants very being .
Wow! What a brilliant video. First one of yours I am watching and I've already subscribed! In-depth analysis with quotes, just lovely. Great work.
+Terrible Tallrus I'm really glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
thank you for your sincere efforts to put up such a great content.
Now I know I am not the only one who constantly feel absurdness of human existence..I feel so much better, thank you!
I just want to thank you for helping the world with this posting this on youtube
your channel is perfect! this is my favorite video.
I'm reading the myth of sisyphus right now, good video to gain some more insight into the topic
Thanks for the amazing content on your channel!
I've learnt about so many different philosophers and psychologists and have questioned and broke through a lot of my absurdity of existence and much of the credit goes to you guys. I thank you for studying all this material and putting forth a well harmonised video that is easy to understand.
I have one thing to say though - Some concepts become hard to interpret so could you add in a few examples to illustrate them?
Love this ! Thank you for posting it!!!
really nice video please continue the good work you are doing :)
Get the transcript here: academyofideas.com/2016/04/introduction-to-camus-the-absurd-revolt-and-rebellion/
I love listening to this at work!
Well thought out video thank you for this!
Love these lectures very helpful & validating
yes but incorrect in this particular video. Camus's theory does not state than life is absurd or that the human existence is absurd as wrongly mentioned in this video. A lot of video have been made about the absurd on youtube by people who seem to not understand what the Absurd is. It is a shame because they look well made, people sound satisfy to have learnt something but they have been misguided. The absurd is the confrontation between a meaningless life (not an absurd life) and our desire to give meaning to it. That is the Absurd and nothing else. Life being meaning less is a different proposal from life being absurd. Life is not absurd at all.
Most of it is meaningless I understand this. Just something to take my mind off of everything.
Is there anywhere that you list the art used in your videos? All of it is wonderful and I'd like to know more about it.
Thank you, your videos spread this wisdom
Love this channel!
"If nothing is true... everything is permitted."
I see what you did there.
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Dostoyevsky?
The Creed
Very interesting, thanks for providing!
Solidarity! Solidarity! Solidarity!
- Said Jimmy "The Rebel" Hoffa calmly
just found ur channel, thank you so much. now i want to start my own philosophy channel!!!
Amazing video! Amazing channel!
Great Job, we really appreciate it :), could you please put the title of the paintings in the description, I think it would be great
When all is lost, realize that we all share the purpose of fighting the injustices of the world. We have that base purpose to fall back to.
Excellent job!!! 👏👏👏
I live in the city where Camus lived his early life, it is absolutely beautiful, it doesn't let you leave...
Craziest thing happened to me, I heard the song Once In a life time by the talking heads performed by angilique kidjo and It hit me like a brick, ("you might ask yourself, how did I get here... as the days go by letting the water flow in"),the existential meaning to the song and that I have been letting the days go by. A year ago I was always listening to hopeful music about changing the world and thinking about how the future I will make a difference and that I just gotta grind until then. then for the past year I have been grinding, scheduling, and going no where because I have been allowing the grind and schedule be a distraction. Like as if I went from the Socialist with his view of life's absurdity and hopeful ideas back to the allowing life's day to day distract me. Now I am back in my old mind state, and it's like "What have I done"
camus for the win
YES! my personal fav. philosopher and hero
Flywheel Shyster Same here!
Here also
Great video
duuuude, yes! keep up the good work
Excellent Video
So good thank you so much
can you please do some more on him?
This comment section makes me happy. Some fine people who understand that existence has no point, but chose to live a civil life and find their own purpose/value.
Academy of Ideas i jus love u
Great video.
Yes!!!! Thank you!!!
A lot of this changes based on whether you're optimistic or pessimistic about life. That life is just a futile struggle and then death just tells me the person who lived theirs had not been so fortunate to learn of what made life worth living.
Which is essentially anything when some angel told me about dynamism.
I like it :D more Camus plz
Very interresting! I love to read philosophy books.
Thank you!
Can you give any information about the allegory of death engraving in the video? The black and white plate depicting death with a scythe reaching down to a man who is gesturing to something out of frame? Thank you!
thank you so much
very nice Sir ji.
Please do on The Fall by Albert Camus.
Awesome!
Hello, I'm wondering about the "Death" image in black and white at the 37-second mark. Who's the artist (or if you don't know, where can I obtain the image)? I'm thinking it might be a great tattoo idea. Thanks!
This is my favourite one
Having viewed a few of your excellent videos on Western philosophers I'm still of the mind they simply didn't 'get it' and have returned to the Eastern (including some Western transcribes thereof) philosophers, not for the first time. Western is all intellectualism and Eastern, the heart of the matter. Quite literally.
Thanks so much
I have a question. In one of the quotes of the rebel, he describes how if one is consistent, "...they degrade no one, the freedom is for everyone." I'm paraphrasing, of course. But it's the following line that troubles me. It was something along the lines of "Whatever he detested would be forbidden by all."
This seems to be the very conundrum we face in this P.C. driven, everyone's a winner paradigm? Idk... does anyone else see holes in this or is it just my misunderstanding the logic?
Could you please tell me where in ''The Rebel'' you found the qoute from 11:00 (''The only way to deal with an unfree world...'')?
i think albert camus hit the nail on the head with regards to human existence and fate.
It all comes down being truthful to yourself. If you believe that your life is meaningful then be true to that. If you're not be true to that. Because at the end, we have to answer ourselves, what we did or what we didn't do.
I don't know if this is a problem with my setup, but the audio seems a bit left-ear biased. I'm certainly getting audio out of the right, but I don't have the same warmth and power out of each speaker.
+TheVoidReturnsNull Thanks for pointing it out I notice a slight unbalance in the audio too. I'll keep that in mind for future recordings.
thanks!
Instant sub.
sounds like philosophical depression. this is why people warn you to shut up and do what your told. its dangerous to think deeply, but betterthan being a fool. reality is elegant, full of wonder, and rich in beauty.
Best philosopher
Do you think there is a tiny bit of anarchism in his genuine rebellion?
I'd think so, anarchy= no sovereignty, genuine rebellion = no masters no slaves --> also no sovereignty
A tiny bit? Is there anarchism in Stirner? Or Nietzsche? Or, hell, Diogenes?
Anarchism, as I see it, is the "ideology" of freedom.
@@jonasv.b.2647 idk I think individual sovereignty is extremely vital to anarchism. If I'm not sovereign over my self, am I not essentially a slave?
At the end of The Rebel, Camus actually proposes that Syndicalism (never clarified if it is just Syndicalism or Anarcho-Syndicalism) might have what it is we seek. So there may of been an anarchist in him after all.
I see it has a lot in common with Proudhon and Mutualism but comes from a more philosophical angle than political or economic one.
way way better than the school of life, thanks a lot !
Correct me if I'm wrong but is it not the third option apart from physical suicide or philosophical suicide to rebel against the absurd by treating it with opposite effect of what it would have us normally do. If I am sentenced to 10 years in prison the common response would be sadness and maybe pain so the way to deal with the absurdity of it would be to enjoy every moment of the sentence? This is why one must imagine Sisyphus as happy? To bare witness to the absurd.
The revolt is not to say no to the absurd, but to be indifferent towards it. It is to have the courage to keep living while being aware of the absurdity ans even find joy into it. To revolt is more like to refuse to suicide yourself (in both ways).
Thanks
"Our reason is confined to the evidence from our experience"
Correct.
That was quite a 11 min for a newbie!
To uphold the constitution!
What is the name of the painting at 4:28?
I truly love some of the philosophical insights of Albert Camus but accepting the Absurd is also a leap of faith. How could we conclude that the quest for man to find meaning is absurd since we cannot grasp within our mind the "whole picture" (the universe). Also his views doesn't justify why the continuation of human civilization is a good thing. I simply cannot imagine Sisyphus being happy. Why not end his torment?
Sysiphus was cursed by the gods and can't die but all was has to roll the boulder up the hill in all eternety and then watch it roll down again. That's a flaw in this analogy Sysiphus can't kill himself because of this curse, humans in turn can.
I think I found a solution to this predicament somewhere but unfortunately I forgot where.
Cheers
Camus’s ideas were very much a product of his time but indeed they are still very applicable and important against the totalitarians of the future. He acknowledged that humans search for absolutes and eventually find them; or rather create them.
During the section on 'The Impotence of Reason' my smoke alarm goes off for apparently no reason (hopefully!)
I wonder what kind of smoke's Camus smoked?
9:38 - the children of the absurd share common values in recognizing the 'dignity and rights of others' - i don't understand the jump here; i thought the whole point of the absurd was that there is no transcendent meaning and so we cannot have any basis for the 'dignity and rights' of others. If someone could explain, thanks
Joshua Fayez hmmm I see what you mean. However, I've no explanation for this incongruity. That you call it a jump is appropriate because I was following along just fine until the idea of the "genuine rebel" suddenly just dismisses the "absurd"
Seeing as no one has answered your question leaves me little hope that mine own will be addressed, though.
nah man ur seein this wrong. the absurd doesn't correlate with meaninglessness. the absurd is just realizing that there is no higher principle, no divine guide or purpose, only human existence and our projections on the world (to which the world doesn't respond). this means all of us are individuals fighting the same thing by living the same way. that is why it is so important to maintain dignity and freedom.
I read the book, and i expect that you read and understand.
Well, here it is: the human soul have a necessity of clarity and unity, and the universe responses with unreasonable silence that generates anguish and pain. In face of that, the human souls has to revolt against this condition, and that revolt is a affirmance of something in the very individual human soul that have to be respected, some value, and by this way, with the revolt, the human soul affirms and claim clarity, imposing the human dignity.
If the rebel affirms some value in his absurd condition, as mentioned above, he must so also affirms this value in all humankind. We are all children of the absurd, and the suffering that was before viewed individual, is perceived to be universal. That is the basis of the "solidarity of chains".
If we affirm some absurd value in us, we affirm to all humankind. "I rebel, therefore we exist".
Hope you got the idea :)
The way I think of it is to pursue meaning is to embrace the meaninglessness of it all. Rebellion towards absurdity doesn't dismiss it, rather it forces one to never lose sight of it. It's not denial, but rather defiance. To Camus, the absurd is not something to defeat or destroy, because it can't be, but rather something to continue struggling with.
@@hunterwillis3775 If the ultimate goal is to fight against the idea of meaninglessness by pursuing meaning, is this not just another form of philosophical suicide? Wouldn't the ideal condition just be to accept the absurdity of your relationship with the universe and just do whatever? Wouldn't pursuing meaning against the absurdity just lead you to firmly placing yourself in a dogmatic ideal? I mean if you firmly believe in a god despite the universe not showing you any evidence of one, and ignoring the absence of evidence for a god, wouldn't that be the ultimate defiance? To force yourself to believe in something that isn't there just because it is the ultimate defiance? Wouldn't that lead back to philosophical suicide?
So complex to understand.
I read The Stranger this year in my senior year, yeah and it felt like I was watching an episode of Seinfeld without the comedy; it also was one of the books I actually enjoyed reading in school.
I read the Stranger last week.Absurdly, and unfortunately how life plays out sometimes against the individual and how the world relates to it. Upside down,Down side up.He could have thought out the last paragraph and wrote the exact same story from beginning to end, or started and ended just the same.
Painting at 5:01 ?
Blissful ignorance is probably the best solution.God knows what the real situation is - time repeats itself, that girl that was murdered gets mudered again, and again, and again. Personally, I try to come to terms with my past, I can't change what happened but I can change its significance. This is my hope, this is what I live on.
Camus was so smart