Albert Camus [1913-1960][french author, journalist + philosopher]
'In his essays Camus presented the reader with dualisms: happiness and sadness, dark and light, life and death, etc. His aim was to emphasize the fact that happiness is fleeting and that the human condition is one of mortality. He did this not to be morbid, but to reflect a greater appreciation for life and happiness. In Le Mythe, this dualism becomes a paradox: We value our lives and existence so greatly, but at the same time we know we will eventually die, and ultimately our endeavours are meaningless. While we can live with a dualism (I can accept periods of unhappiness, because I know I will also experience happiness to come), we cannot live with the paradox (I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless). In Le Mythe, Camus was interested in how we experience the Absurd and how we live with it. Our life must have meaning for us to value it. If we accept that life has no meaning and therefore no value, should we kill ourselves?'
the outsider 1942. by Albert Camus.
afterword: ‘Meursault is not a reject, but a poor and naked man, in love with a sun that leaves no shadows. Far from lacking all sensibility, he is driven by a tenacious and therefore profound passion, the passion for an absolute and for truth. The truth is yet a negative one, a truth born of living and feeling, but without which no triumph over the self or over the world will ever be possible’.
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
THE REVELATION OF MAN WITH GOD:
IN CONFESSIONS: ST. AUGUSTINE PROMOTES IDEA OF CONNECTION BETWEEN MAN AND GOD IN RELIGION. CAMUS, AN ATHEIST, YET AWARE OF THE ABSENCE OF PURPOSE WITHOUT GOD. GOD AS MAN'S' SALVATION AND MEANING'. PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR CONCEPT OF THE ABSURDIST PHILOSOPHY OF ALBERT CAMUS.
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