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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
The Myth of Sisyphus is a wonderfully insightful essay. Camus is a very clear and helpful thinker for exploring the world of Existentialism. This essay along with Sartre's Existentialism as a Humanism will give you a great picture of the philosophy. The only reason this is 3 stars is that the other essays in the collection really didn't interest me. They were mostly about towns and I was just uninterested. The title essay is certainly worth reading though.
Too challenging to listen to, I would prefer to read it.
reflective
medium-paced
I’m sorry man, being a white straight male is hard I get it. Life is indeed suffering for you
if you stick to reading this after the first 20-30 pages it gets easier, i promise!
"But it is bad to stop, hard to be satisfied with a single way of seeing, to go without contradiction, perhaps the most subtle of all spiritual forces. The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live"
damn
"But it is bad to stop, hard to be satisfied with a single way of seeing, to go without contradiction, perhaps the most subtle of all spiritual forces. The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live"
damn
slow-paced
Too dense on philosophy--didn't enjoy
I don't think I agreed with everything Camus had to say, or even understood it all, but even if I couldn't follow his absurd breadcrumbs, I could enjoy his sense of humor. Like when he cautions from taking examples literally:
when drawing from Rousseau the conclusion that one must walk on all fours and from Nietzsche that one must maltreat one’s mother