The Absurd Explained: Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky

This video explores the concept of The Absurd of Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky as well as the differences between these three existentialists. The Absurd is the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life, and the human inability to find any meaning in a purposeless, meaningless, and irrational universe, with the ‘unreasonable silence’ of the universe in response.Camus contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as Absurdism. Most famously expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus. Sisyphus is the ultimate Absurd Man, a man condemned by the gods to a lifetime of rolling a boulder up a hill, only to reach the top of the hill and have the boulder inevitably roll back down to the bottom for him to start all over again.Camus argued against the “leap of faith” of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky considering it as “philosophical suicide”. His response to the absurd is to revolt, which he considers as the only coherent philosophical position.👑 Become a PatronAccess exclusive material and deeper studieshttps://www.patreon.com/eternalised⭐ Or become a YouTube Memberhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join—Support the work☕ Buy a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised💸 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial👕 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com—For deeper study📜 Full transcript: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2020/11/20/the-absurd/📚 Personal library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library💡 eBooks: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised/shop🎨 Artwork archive: https://eternalisedofficial.com/patron-benefitsStay connected📨 Newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe✍️ Substack: https://substack.com/@eternalised—Elsewhere🐦 X: https://x.com/eternalised1📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official🎧 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/eternalised📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eternalised━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Myth of Sisyphus - Camushttps://amzn.to/36bTIFR▶ Sickness unto Death - Kierkegaardhttps://amzn.to/3jMgzfT▶ Demons - Dostoevskyhttps://amzn.to/3kTOl3W▶ Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevskyhttps://amzn.to/3kLC7ue🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN━━━━━━━━━━━━━A part of the script was made possible thanks to the Afterword of Camus' Belief in The Myth of Sisyphus by James Wood.━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Camus' view1:53 Kierkegaard’s view4:20 Dostoevsky’s view6:57 The Absurd Man - Camus7:57 Revolt – Camus10:13 An Example of Rebellion: The Drowned and The Saved━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎶 Music used1. Anguish – Kevin MacLeod2. Lightless Dawn – Kevin MacLeod3. Agnus Dei X – Kevin MacLeod4. They Got Away – Documentary Music – CO.AG MusicSubscribe to CO.AG Musichttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvASubscribe to Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusicLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/━━━━━━━━━━━━━As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you.Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!#absurdism #camus #existentialism