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Anonymous Thu Jul 12 15:46:27 2018 No.11450797 [Reply] [Original]

Is Sisyphus just The Knight Of Infinite Resignation?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 17:14:44 2018 No.11451208 ???

Anonymous Thu Jul 12 21:22:08 2018 No.11452393

>>11450797
When reading Camus you shouldn't think of Sisyphus as a man, but view his punishment as what we are all unavoidably subjected to.
If you need help understanding The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger then listen to DFW's This Is Water, it'll explain what the metaphor means if nothing else.

Sage Thu Jul 12 22:52:14 2018 No.11452771

>>11450797
No. Camus was against faith. If you understood The Myth of Sysyphus enough to ask then I must assume you didn't understand Kierkegaard. Then again, that whole book is about ways to approach human toil without recourse to anything higher. So maybe you didn't understand it either.

Tl;Dr just because they're both labeled existentialists doesn't mean there is a fruitful comparison

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 23:10:00 2018 No.11452836 >>11452771 I thought Knight of Infinite Resignation wasn't about faith. You're thinking of the Knight of Faith

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 23:19:25 2018 No.11452870 File: 104 KB, 796x744, wojack pepe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11450797 Is Wojack just The Knight of Infinite Resignation and Smug Pepe The Knight of Faith?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 12 23:48:23 2018 No.11452969 >>11450797 Are people on this board finally going to understand that Camus was the only author to really understand Kierkegaard Good post OP but u should've anticipated the brainlet comments from people who read a wiki article on SK once

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 01:02:30 2018 No.11453212 >>11450797 >resigned to his infinite fate seems like a “yes” to me

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 02:20:32 2018 No.11453426 >>11452771 >I must assume you didn't understand Kierkegaard Kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 09:22:59 2018 No.11454401 >>11452870 Nah. Wojack is lost in the infinite and Pepe is lost in the finite. They are both in despair.

Anonymous Fri Jul 13 09:35:32 2018 No.11454426

>>11450797
the knight of infinite resignation would be bound by the rational impossibility of ever pushing that stone over the mountain. he would watch it roll down and give up.
the knight of faith is much like Sisyphus, for even if he knows it is impossible, yes he accepts the absurd by the power of god and continues pushing the stone upwards.

the difference between the two is that Camus offered a version of the knight of faith that does not rely on an acceptance of god, but rather an acceptance of the absurd.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 14:04:37 2018 No.11455721 >>11454426 Why would he give up?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 13 14:44:09 2018 No.11455905 >>11452969 actually I was just bumping this thread to slide another one off page 10

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