Albert Camus | The Myth of Sisyphus (part 1) | Existentialist Philosophy & Literature

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  @GregoryBSadler · 13 years ago

  You know, I&apos;m getting a lot of comments from people who are in the same boat, more or less -- they want to study philosophy, but for one reason or another they&apos;re not able to got to college/university -- either at all or at the time. &nbsp;<br><br>So, there&apos;s a pretty serious desire out there, among a lot of people, to not only read and study philosophy, but to do so in some way kinda like what occurs in college/university.<br><br>I&apos;ve got to say that, on my end, that&apos;s pretty cool to see

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  @GregoryBSadler · 13 years ago

  Camus is an avowed atheist, like some other Existentialists like Sartre, De Beauvoir, Nietzsche. He criticizes theistic Existentialists like Kierkegaard or Shestov.<br><br>I&apos;m not sure how there&apos;s confusion about this. &nbsp;If one is an Atheist, that doesn&apos;t mean that every single thing the person says comes out of or is an expression of atheism.<br>

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  @NinthCinemaDown · 11 years ago

  This video was suggested after my most recent song about Sisyphus, and holy crap, your channel is EXACTLY what I have been looking for - intellectually satisfying philosophy videos by someone who doesn&apos;t live in a bubble of musty sweaters and dusty armchairs. A YouTube channel of someone who understands what youtube is good for, the modern day, and even modern politics, and doesn&apos;t let that dumb down the subject being dealt with or let the subject being dealt with become too divorced from a modern audience. I didn&apos;t understand just how well you introduced the problem until the absolutely brilliant summation in the last ten minutes. The sociopolitical implications of different ways of dealing with &quot;the absurd&quot; is exactly what I was trying to get at in my book, Void. I will now add your channel to my list of videos to devour like I do with certain TED videos, which are also great in similar respects. As an aside, I think you may find it amusing to know you remind me a bit of Christian Bale, were he playing the part of a professor. Keep this channel going, and if you don&apos;t have a video about Schopenhauer yet, please make one. Thank you for doing this for everyone to see on YouTube.

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  @DesAbelmen · 1 year ago

  30s in and 12 years into the future im happy im seeing this. I read the Myth of Sisyphus and I could not understand how every other 10min youtube video failed to mention 99% of it. Everyone just clamors about that one like &quot;one must think Sisyphus happy&quot; despite that it&apos;s literally a side mention in the last part of the entire essay. I needed to understand more

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• EK

  @ekstrajohn · 9 years ago

  Discovering the works of Camus made me feel not alone in the world, while watching your videos has a greater effect than months of psychotherapy.

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• EM

  @EmperorGarm · 13 years ago

  &quot;What kind of life should I live?&quot;<br><br>Let&apos;s turn that around in regards to suicide...<br><br>&quot;Should I live a kind of life?&quot;

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• AN

  @annieevolve2716 · 12 years ago

  Gregory, thankyou for your generous gesture of making Philosophy accessible to all.<br>Loved this series on Sisyphus. Understanding more of the themes has benefitted me greatly- thankyou.<br>I really appreciate your energy and effort in putting together this fabulous resource.<br>Cheers!:) Annie

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  @GregoryBSadler · 13 years ago

  Glad you find the videos useful. &nbsp;<br><br>I&apos;m not a Camus follower myself -- when I teach anyone&apos;s works, I attempt to present their position as fully as possible, in such a way as to make it a plausible way to see things

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• YA

  @yasha12isreal · 8 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_js06RG0n3c&amp;t=1447">24:07</a> &quot;The Feeling of Absurdity&quot;

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• DI

  @Diomedes99 · 1 year ago

  I watch your videos on repeat as I’m reading through whatever I’m reading. This morning it’s Camus, existentialism, coffee and early.

• GR

  @GregoryBSadler · 13 years ago

  Glad it was useful for you -- there&apos;s two other vids specifically on the Mtyh of Sisyphus

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  @RationalTheist4 · 13 years ago

  Yeah i read it my freshman year! the librarian noticed i checked out many of the books in the humanities section so she recommended this books I enjoyed it!

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