How To Live Freely In This Meaningless World - Albert Camus (Philosophy Of Absurdism)

In this video we will be talking about how to be free from the philosophy of Albert Camus. Albert Camus is one of the most representative figures of the philosophy of the “absurd” or “absurdism".

The main theory of Camus is to embrace the absurdity of life as a simple fact, without falling into despair. This ability to embrace absurdity means to be free. According to Camus, there are 2 types of freedom: Common Freedom, defined as the ability to choose between different options - for example, whether to take a glass of water from the table or not - and Absurd Freedom, the ability to live a life without meaning. For Camus, Absurd Freedom is true freedom. In a world without meaning, individuals can discover that they can do whatever they want, while still taking full responsibility for their actions.

Without any legitimate pressure from other people, society and so on, we can learn to only follow our inner motivations and personal values. Reaffirming this power coming from such an inner freedom, we as individuals thus create our own meaning of life.

So to help you understand how to be more free, we bring you 7 ways to live freely from the philosophy of Albert Camus:
01. Believe in freedom
02. Fight for freedom
03. Be creative
04. Act rebellious
05. Be free but lawful
06. Acknowledge the negative sides of your freedom
07. Use your freedom to improve yourself
I hope you enjoyed watching these 7 ways you can be free from the philosophy of Albert Camus and find them helpful in your life.

Albert Camus is one of the greatest French writers and thinkers. He was a philosopher, an author and a journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957 and his most famous works are The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel. Camus is one of the most representative figures of the philosophy of the “absurd” or “absurdism,” which is a philosophical movement having as its central hypothesis that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe. Camus considered that absolute freedom must be balanced with absolute justice - too much freedom leads to the situation when the strong suppresses the weak but too much justice kills freedom, and we need to live and let live. As a promoter of the philosophy of the “absurd”, Camus believed that life has no meaning, that the universe simply exists and that it is indifferent to people’s lives. We are like Sisyphus from Greek mythology, forever carrying that heavy rock to the top of the hill, although we know the rock will always fall down and our life's work is meaningless. Our condition might be tragic, but Camus considered that this exact condition hides a blessing in disguise: life does not have a meaning, but we are free to attribute it any meaning we want. His philosophy has inspired a lot of people in dealing with the absurdity of life and even today, his philosophy is extremely relevant.

Research/Writing: Bianca-Adina Szasz

Narration/Audio Editing: Dan Mellins-Cohen

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Albert Camus says “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion”.

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[chrysanthemum]

HOW VERY MUCH I needed to find this video tonight. I had no idea how much I love Albert Camus. YAY! ❤👏

[ReynaSingh]

I think the existentialists had a good grasp on life and philosophy. What good is philosophy of it is not helping us understand ourselves better

[annanikia]

Thank you for reminding us of this brilliant being and his philosophy!

[mrScififan]

This is helpful for me this very minute. I’m going though some stuff, and this is helping me to cope.

[timothykangethe]

Camus has Awesome insights 🎯.
As an Artist 🎨 I find this Deep Philosophical thought process necessary for recreation/living a curated life.

Rebellion against Societal Conveyor Belts Pressure is one form of real Freedom when one takes Full Responsibility and thrives on their own terms & Lane in Life.🎇

[markbrady]

Thank you so much for this. Camus and Kierkegaard (and Kafka and Dostoevsky) were such huge influences on me in early adulthood. You have such a wonderful, meaningful summation of these ideas. I really appreciate it.

[ahaks]

Brilliant timing! I got curious with Camus a week ago. Thanks for the video, cheers!

[friedrichnietzsche]

"The absurd is everywhere every corner every street you see the absurd somehere"- Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus

[lawrencemanning]

Loved your other Camus videos and this one is awesome as well, thanks!

[johnston]

Excellent video, what i needed to hear.

[jittersgeyser]

Instead of labeling peoples ideas as 'misinformation', we need to encourage people to explore ideas. Then educate them about how media from the left and the right can manipulate. Our education system grooms the youth, but doesnt show them to think critcally or question the status quo. THAT is dangerous with todays society.

[caroledoerr]

I hope that Camus's ideas will be globally viable in this very controversial existence!

[kotby]

ya that's right freedom lies in what we can control and what we can't like stoicism said

[chardground]

That's so deep that I now have at least 19 tiny post-it notes on it. I WILL MAKE THESE THE RULES I LIVE BY.
(I can't believe I just agreed mindlessly to this video but man do I agree with it.)

[danserrano]

Wonderful ideas thought by Camus, why some people have exceptional thoughts than others? What makes them so to even question their civilization, culture and religion

[maximusprimus]

How do we as a society judge what is wrong and right when it comes to information. Who gets to choose what is considered right or wrong.

[flexwashington]

This indeed sounded absurd until about the 3 minute mark, glad I didnt stop watching.

[markdavidignacio]

Those words are inspiring and emotional. Listening to this while going home from overtime work. Thank you as always.

[seven]

“fake news” and “abuse”

and how exactly do we determine what constitutes this? who is and isnt allowed to be censored? when are we justified in saying “this persons freedom of speech is the wrong kind of freedom?”

preaching absurdism and speaking on camus and simultaneously trying to justify censorship on the internet is hilariously off base.