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6280117 No.6280117 [Reply] [Original]

Is the Myth of Sisyphus good? People here suck Camus' dick hard, so they should be acquainted with it.

>> No.6280130

Camus and Sartre are pretty much pop-philosophers. Or at least they brought philosophy to the masses in semi-easily digestible works.
You're better off reading their influences because they don't really bring anything new to the table apart from literary metaphors.

>> No.6280140

Why read Camus when you can infect yourself with an STD, read Schopenhauer, become pessimistic and sick and then read Nietzsche and become stronger and stronger until you are the Ubermensch?

>> No.6280142

It's alright from what I've seen.

>> No.6280156

I probably would have killed myself without it.

>> No.6280195

>>6280117
I liked it, he has a tendency to jump to assumptions without a real basis for his opinions but he connects with me on an emotional level more than any other philosopher besides Nietzsche .

>> No.6281553

>>6280156
Same

>> No.6281569

French existentialism is a cancer.
Absurdism is a predicate of existentialism.

>> No.6281577

>>6280195
Agreed.

>> No.6281578

>>6280117
I found it pretty bad as a philosophical text.
His novels are way better IMO

>> No.6283108

It's worth reading. Get what you can out of it. And then read something else.

>> No.6283120

It's made the most sense of anything I've ever read as an overview of existence.

We'll never know how, there probably isn't a why, and who cares anyway? Make your own meaning through struggle (a very Buddhist notion) and learn to live for the journey since you already know death is the destination.

In any case, the universe doesn't concern itself with the thoughts of ants, so why should you concern yourself with it?