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What I’ve learned from Albert Camus
Was he the start of the Mindfulness movement?
I’ve recently become aware of Albert Camus. I was first introduced to him through Stephen West on the the Philosophize This podcast. I’ve since read one of his books, The Stranger. I’ve also read various articles and viewed numerous You Tube videos about him and his work.
I am by no means an expert. But this is what I’ve learned so far and I thought I’d share it now rather than continue to read all of his works over the next 6-months and never write anything.
The below is pretty much a summary of my own notes as I’ve been exploring my curiosity about Camus (pronounced “Cam” — “oo”). Other than correcting the odd spelling mistake, they are as I wrote them.
Camus proposed that people continue to search for meaning and purpose in a universe that can not, or will not, provide an answer. That fact that people keep asking the universe regardless of the fact that we never get an answer if absurd. Hence, the theory of absurdism and the understanding that everything we do is meaningless within a meaningless universe.
‘When you understand that nothing has meaning that is true freedom!’
