Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile

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  Hello, everyone.

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  I'm Stephen West.

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  This is Philosophize this.

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  So listen to these last three episodes we've done recently on Albert Camus.

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  You can hear some of the terms he's been throwing around, like solidarity, rebellion, lucidity.

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  You can hear these things and be on board with what he's saying in theory.

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  But it's quite another thing to be able to apply these things to your life in any sort of real way.

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  I mean,

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  you can theoretically understand you could be looking at the world in a more life affirming way.

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  But look, you can't just all of a sudden be like, oh, I get it now.

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  I just gotta be more lucid about stuff.

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  That's what's been missing from my life this whole time.

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  No, to Camus, you don't just think your way into a more lucid framing of your reality.

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  This is something that in many ways, a person has to arrive at through lived experience.

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  That much like in the work of Dostoevsky or the religious mystics we've talked about,

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  or even certain lines of Zen Buddhism on the podcast lately,

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  there's certain insights about what it is to be a human being that can only be arrived at by experiencing them directly.

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  And to Camus, one of these important experiences that you gotta have in your life,

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  but that a lot of people spend most of their lives running away from,

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  is what he's gonna call the experience of exile.

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