Albert Camus
Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, on November 7, 1913 he was a French novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher and journalist born in Algeria.
His conceptions were formed under the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and German existentialism.
It has been attributed the conformation of philosophical thought known as absurdism
(The philosophy of the absurd or absurdism is the philosophical current that deals with the nature of "the absurd" and how to respond to it once the individual is aware of it. The absurd is the conflict between the search for an intrinsic meaning and objective to human life and the apparent non-existence of that meaning. Three solutions to the absurd are usually offered: suicide, religion or the simple acceptance of the absurd.)
Although in his text "The enigma" Camus himself denies the label of "prophet of the absurd." It has been frequently associated with existentialism
(Existentialism is a philosophical current that maintains that existence precedes essence and that reality precedes thought and will precedes intelligence.)
Although Camus always considered himself alien to him.
Despite his conscious departure from nihilism
(Nihilism is a philosophical doctrine that considers that in the end everything comes down to nothing, and therefore nothing makes sense.)
Rescue from him the idea of individual freedom.
He was part of the French Resistance during the German occupation, and was associated with the postwar libertarian movements. In 1957, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "a set of work that highlights the problems that arise in the consciousness of men today."
His childhood was spent in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Algiers, and with an absolute absence of books and magazines.
Thanks to a scholarship received by the children of the victims of the war, he was able to begin to study and have the first contacts with books. In the midst of financial difficulties, he attended elementary school and finished high school.
In Algiers he studied in primary school and was encouraged by his teachers, especially Louis Germain, to whom he was totally grateful, to the point of dedicating his Nobel Prize speech to him.
Later he studied philosophy and letters and graduated with a thesis on the relationship between classical Greek thought and Christianity from the writings of Plotinus and Saint Augustine.
He was rejected as a teacher because of his advanced tuberculosis, so he devoted himself to journalism as a correspondent for the Alger Républicain. In 1939 he appeared for the army as a volunteer, but they did not accept him due to his delicate health.
He began to write at an early age: his first texts were published in Sud magazine in 1932.
Two years before the outbreak of World War II, Camus was a journalist for the Alger Républicain. There he published different articles that analyze the social situation of Muslims in the Kabylia region.
These articles, later published in Actuelles III (1958), drew attention to the many injustices that subsequently unleashed the 1954 Algerian War.
Camus was more related to humanitarian currents, more than political-ideological, and he maintained the importance of the role of France in Algeria, although he did not ignore the colonial injustices.
Through his writings, Camus explores the human condition of isolation within a universe that seems alien, the estrangement of the human being towards himself, the problem of evil and the fatality of death.
His thinking is considered to represent the disillusionment of intellectuals in the postwar era.
However, although he understood the nihilism of many of his contemporaries, he defended values such as freedom and justice.
In his later works, he outlined a liberal humanism that rejected the dogmatic aspects of Christianity and Marxism.
Man is always in an "absurd condition", in "absurd situations." Camus stated in 1956, in an interview published by Le Monde: «I do not believe in God, it is true. And yet I am not an atheist. I am even inclined, with Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, to see in irreligion something vulgar and ..., yes, deteriorated ».
Absurdism
This idea of the absurd presupposes that the human being seeks a meaning of the world, of human life and of history, which supports his ideals and values. The assurance is desired that reality is an intelligible teleological process, containing an objective moral order.
The philosophy of the revolt
Camus had a strong concern for human freedom, social justice, peace, and the elimination of violence. Human beings can rebel against exploitation, oppression, injustice and violence, and by the very fact of their rebellion they affirm the values in whose name they become rebellious. A philosophy of revolt, therefore, has a moral basis, and if this basis is denied, either explicitly or in the name of some abstraction like the movement of history, what begins as rebellion and expression of freedom, turns into tyranny and the suppression of it. For Camus, like rebellion, all political action must have a solid moral basis.
He died on January 1960 at the age of 46 in Villeblevin, France.
How do you see Albert was a philosopher with some ideas different from what we are used to, I personally agree with Albert in each of his ideological points, he was also a person who lived in the postwar period from his childhood, had a hard life, stuck in the poverty, but he got ahead and now has a Nobel for his rewarding essays, now that you know his story, what do you think?
His conceptions were formed under the influence of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and German existentialism.
It has been attributed the conformation of philosophical thought known as absurdism
(The philosophy of the absurd or absurdism is the philosophical current that deals with the nature of "the absurd" and how to respond to it once the individual is aware of it. The absurd is the conflict between the search for an intrinsic meaning and objective to human life and the apparent non-existence of that meaning. Three solutions to the absurd are usually offered: suicide, religion or the simple acceptance of the absurd.)
Although in his text "The enigma" Camus himself denies the label of "prophet of the absurd." It has been frequently associated with existentialism
(Existentialism is a philosophical current that maintains that existence precedes essence and that reality precedes thought and will precedes intelligence.)
Although Camus always considered himself alien to him.
Despite his conscious departure from nihilism
(Nihilism is a philosophical doctrine that considers that in the end everything comes down to nothing, and therefore nothing makes sense.)
Rescue from him the idea of individual freedom.
He was part of the French Resistance during the German occupation, and was associated with the postwar libertarian movements. In 1957, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "a set of work that highlights the problems that arise in the consciousness of men today."
His childhood was spent in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Algiers, and with an absolute absence of books and magazines.
Thanks to a scholarship received by the children of the victims of the war, he was able to begin to study and have the first contacts with books. In the midst of financial difficulties, he attended elementary school and finished high school.
In Algiers he studied in primary school and was encouraged by his teachers, especially Louis Germain, to whom he was totally grateful, to the point of dedicating his Nobel Prize speech to him.
Later he studied philosophy and letters and graduated with a thesis on the relationship between classical Greek thought and Christianity from the writings of Plotinus and Saint Augustine.
He was rejected as a teacher because of his advanced tuberculosis, so he devoted himself to journalism as a correspondent for the Alger Républicain. In 1939 he appeared for the army as a volunteer, but they did not accept him due to his delicate health.
He began to write at an early age: his first texts were published in Sud magazine in 1932.
Two years before the outbreak of World War II, Camus was a journalist for the Alger Républicain. There he published different articles that analyze the social situation of Muslims in the Kabylia region.
These articles, later published in Actuelles III (1958), drew attention to the many injustices that subsequently unleashed the 1954 Algerian War.
Camus was more related to humanitarian currents, more than political-ideological, and he maintained the importance of the role of France in Algeria, although he did not ignore the colonial injustices.
Through his writings, Camus explores the human condition of isolation within a universe that seems alien, the estrangement of the human being towards himself, the problem of evil and the fatality of death.
His thinking is considered to represent the disillusionment of intellectuals in the postwar era.
However, although he understood the nihilism of many of his contemporaries, he defended values such as freedom and justice.
In his later works, he outlined a liberal humanism that rejected the dogmatic aspects of Christianity and Marxism.
Man is always in an "absurd condition", in "absurd situations." Camus stated in 1956, in an interview published by Le Monde: «I do not believe in God, it is true. And yet I am not an atheist. I am even inclined, with Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, to see in irreligion something vulgar and ..., yes, deteriorated ».
Absurdism
This idea of the absurd presupposes that the human being seeks a meaning of the world, of human life and of history, which supports his ideals and values. The assurance is desired that reality is an intelligible teleological process, containing an objective moral order.
The philosophy of the revolt
Camus had a strong concern for human freedom, social justice, peace, and the elimination of violence. Human beings can rebel against exploitation, oppression, injustice and violence, and by the very fact of their rebellion they affirm the values in whose name they become rebellious. A philosophy of revolt, therefore, has a moral basis, and if this basis is denied, either explicitly or in the name of some abstraction like the movement of history, what begins as rebellion and expression of freedom, turns into tyranny and the suppression of it. For Camus, like rebellion, all political action must have a solid moral basis.
He died on January 1960 at the age of 46 in Villeblevin, France.
How do you see Albert was a philosopher with some ideas different from what we are used to, I personally agree with Albert in each of his ideological points, he was also a person who lived in the postwar period from his childhood, had a hard life, stuck in the poverty, but he got ahead and now has a Nobel for his rewarding essays, now that you know his story, what do you think?
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