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Date of upload: May 30, 2021 ^^
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My nihilism was worsening by the week and I was contemplating suicide.
I looked up nihilism on YouTube and found "Nihilism Vs. Existentialism Vs. Absurdism" and watched it. I immediately downloaded The Myth Of Sisyphus. After just a couple pages of philosophical theory and a couple days of processing all that information, I was already on the upswing! Now I still have bad days, but I know that suicide is not an option I'm willing to pursue, and my life has become rejuvenated with color and life. Thank you so much for introducing me to this!!
Numbers on a screen never show you how much you've impacted people, so I want to tell you directly that you've helped save a life.
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I think I adore the concept of absurdism. I haven’t heard much about it until this video. Over the years I have thought about life and why I/we exist, but I’ve always had the question- does there have to be a meaning? We know how we exist. Science explains it well via objective evidence. We know the laws of our reality. So I feel like we do just exist, and objectively there is no meaning. Because defining what it means to live is subjective. If one is desperate to find meaning then they can. I don’t feel pessimistic about it either. I’ve just accepted it and live my best life. I reject having to care about what it means to live. Is that absurdist?
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The key to understanding absurdism over against existentialism is that instead of claiming that there is no objective meaning to life and the universe, absurdism claims that life and the universe are objectively meaningless. There is a subtle, but important difference between these two positions.
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My favourite part of this video was how an ad interrupted and added to it:
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Camus literally changed my life. My first university class almost 50 years ago was Philosophy 101. Our first assignment was to read The Outsider (aka The Stranger). From The Outsider to The Plague to The Fall to Myth of Sisyphus to the Rebel, I couldn't get enough of Camus. Thanks for this wonderful video essay. Great summary of absurdism.
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Even with your explanation it took me a moment to understand what the difference between absurdism and existentialism is, so...just in case anyone else is a bit slow.
- Finding meaning in life is ultimately about justifying our existence - what gives us the right to exist, what makes it worth existing, etc.
- Existentialism is about creating meaning to justify our existence.
- Absurdism is about rejecting meaning and just making the best of life as it is.
...I think.
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Man your video opened my mind in so many ways. I always struggled to understand Absurdism and learning that Absurdism is to embrace the struggle itself and rebel against the void is amazing. I might be interpreting both Existencialism and Absurdism wrong but both of them seem to be a complete answer if puted togheter. Nihilism show's us the problem, Absurdism show's us that running away or giving our control to the nearest savior isn't the answer either. Embrace the absurd, enjoy your life and keep rolling that rock up hill against all odds. Then Existencialism comes in the middle ground, if life doesn't have a meaning then create your own meaning trough your own will and struggle. And then if the rock goes down again (The breaking of your previous reason/meaning to live) you get up again and roll that rock uphill again embrancing that life is a endless struggle. A combination of both would be my answer and Guts from Berserk would be my model in this case XD
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This is the best summary of these three philosophical approaches and their relationships to each other that I have yet found. Although the presenter had to rush a bit to pack so much information into a brief timeframe, it’s really worth replaying and unpacking his lucid, well-written presentation as a prelude to further study. Well done!
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@TheLivingPhilosophy
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Wanna support the channel? Now you can: Patreon: www.patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:48 Nihilism: Meaning and Origins 5:15 Existentialism: Definition and its Solution 8:25 Absurdism 9:24 Camus’s Three Responses to the Absurd 11:45 Why Sisyphus is Camus’s Ideal 13:31 Summary and Conclusion
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