Sunday, March 7, 2010

All The Better


"It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning."
Albert Camus

4 comments:

  1. The meaning of life is to live - to live that we serve life...

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  2. Who is that saying? In his early politically engaged life in Algeria, Camus was certainly convinced of his own life´s meaning. But how disastrous was this time for a young intellectual! Colonialism, the uprising of Marxism, the world war, and personally a lot of deceipts and illnesses. I don´t know if Sisyphos accepted the uselessness of his doing, neither if Camus finally did.

    Today it´s different. At least in Europe we live without existential fear. Much easier we find a sense of life and this provides us with additional food or delight.

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  3. This article is obsessing.
    There is no other absolute meaning (meaningfulness?) of life itself than it´s reproduction. Most lifes of single humans get their meaning by a religous content. All others are more or less free to give a meaning to their individual lifes. Some of them discover the absurdity, some others forget this question and a few are adapted as Sisyphos, only because breathing is better than apnoea.

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  4. All the really important things are very banal.

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