2022-09-24
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So one of the things people have requested the most over the years on this podcast are more episodes on Albert Camus.
He was a French-Algerian absurdist philosopher known for nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature,
I think, eleven different times.
And I thought it might be interesting to think about what he would possibly have to say to this hypothetical protagonist we've been talking about in our ongoing creation of meaning series.
For anyone who's unaware, or for anyone who's listened to the podcast for the first time today,
the premise of this series goes something like this.
Imagine someone who doesn't believe in a god,
doesn't believe that there's any sort of intrinsic meaning or moral code written into the universe.
How does that person not only start creating a system of values,
but how do you ground it in something that is on one hand open-ended enough for you to revise your values with new circumstances that you find yourself in?
But on the other hand,
have it be enduring enough that your feelings in a given moment don't dictate everything that you do?
What mistakes do we got to look out for if we're trying to manufacture stability in an unstable universe?
That's the premise here.
And it should be said,