Our Philosophical Fiction group talked about The Fall by Albert Camus in the Partially Examined Life's Not School. Anyone can listen to the highlight below, and Citizens can get the full conversation with all the bonus discussions at PEL's Podcast Episodes Ad Free. Nathan Hanks, Daniel Cole, Cezary Baraniecki, Laura Davis, and Mary Ricci read the novel for a discussion on Continue Reading …
Camus’ Great Blasphemy and the Ethics that Followed
Albert Camus often gets lumped in with twentieth-century French existentialists, a crew known for its hardline atheistic membership. But Camus was something different, something much more blasphemous: an agnostic who wouldn’t revere God even if He did exist. Camus’s primary concern with God centered on the notion of divine justice. Could an otherworldly justice redeem this Continue Reading …
We Know: Camus did not die in a motorcycle accident
If you ever decide to start a podcast under the impression that your early efforts will be protected by a cone of anonymity, do yourself a favor and pretend that you already have an audience in the hundreds of thousands. And operating on that premise, diligently scrub your episodes for any trivial factual errors that -- while they may seem harmless to you at the time -- could Continue Reading …
Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd
Discussing Camus's "An Absurd Reasoning" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942). Does our eventual death mean that life has no meaning and we might as well end it all? Camus starts to address this question, then gets distracted and talks about a bunch of phenomenologists until he dies unreconciled. Also, let's all push a rock up a hill and like it, okay? Plus, the fellas dwell Continue Reading …
Episode 4: Camus and the Absurd
Discussing Camus's "An Absurd Reasoning" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942). Does our eventual death mean that life has no meaning and we might as well end it all? Camus starts to address this question, then gets distracted and talks about a bunch of phenomenologists until he dies unreconciled. Also, let's all push a rock up a hill and like it, okay? Plus, the fellas dwell Continue Reading …