Episode #226 - Albert Camus - The Rebel

单集文稿 ...

• 00:00

  Hello, everyone.

• 00:01

  I'm Steven West.

• 00:02

  This is Philosophize This.

• 00:04

  So this is part three of this series we've been doing on the work of Albert Camus.

• 00:07

  Consider listening to the last two before this one, but I'm not going to tell you how to live your life.

• 00:13

  Solidarity was the concept that Camus laid out in his book, The Plague,

• 00:17

  where he says that affirming life as it is means affirming that other human beings live in the same world that you do,

• 00:23

  and that when the absurd comes knocking at your door, whatever it is,

• 00:26

  solidarity means to affirm that these people face a similar set of existential dilemmas that you do as a being,

• 00:31

  that to ignore the people around you or to justify their suffering with reasons for why they deserve it,

• 00:37

  well, Camus, this is fundamentally to deny something important about the reality that you live in.

• 00:42

  Now, as we know, none of this is grounded for him in a philosophical system.

• 00:47

  As we've talked about,

• 00:47

  this emerges for him simply from a lucid affirmation of our own nature and the nature of the universe,

• 00:53

  the tension between those two.

• 00:55

  And as I teased at the end of last episode,

• 00:56

  this concept of solidarity will become the foundation

• 00:58

  for extending what he thinks we can say from this place of lucid revolt.

• 01:03

  Solidarity is going to allow him to make a case for justice.

• 01:06

  But it can be confusing to hear that at first.

• 全部文稿