If you're into philosophy, check out Albert Camus's The Stranger.
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Anonymous2007-09-29 5:19 ID:0xnaGxL6
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Anonymous2007-09-30 1:05 ID:CkD4uWaj
if you're into philosophy, what the fuck are you doing on 4chan?
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Anonymous2007-10-05 0:06
thats not philosophy
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Anonymous2007-10-05 2:32
Billy Joey's the Stranger is philosophy D:
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Anonymous2007-10-07 0:20
i love the stranger. but it wasn't very philosophical. just sad.
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Anonymous2007-10-08 1:28
>>6
Actually Albert Camus was a philosopher using the story to explain in an interesting way. Remember at the end when the main character comes the conclusion that life is pointless? That's existentialism for you, the philosophy that says life is pointless and nothing matters. So you might as well just do whatever you feel like; (All he did before imprisonment was hang out with his girlfriend and friends.) Also to back this up the anonymous main character was pretty much neutral towards everything. (For example, he didn't care that his mom died.)
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Anonymous2007-10-08 8:22
myth of sisyphus
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Anonymous2007-10-10 20:33
thats not existentialism dumbass, thats nihilism
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Anonymous2007-10-10 20:33
thats not existentialism dumbass, thats nihilism
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Anonymous2007-10-11 0:00
>>7
Thats not the point of the book at all dumbass, go back to philosophy 101. Anyways, Camus is a psuedo-philosopher just like 99% involved in the pathetic french-tradition. I cant believe hacks like Camus and Sarte are presnted to people on the same level as Wittgenstein and Hume.
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Anonymous2007-10-11 3:49
>>11 That is entirely true. If Camus were to Hume what an apple is to a feret, I would have a ponytail growing out of my ass.
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Anonymous2007-10-13 15:30
whether or not Camus is a philosopher, it IS a good book to read if you're interested in philosophy. It is a story about a man who is entirely self-interested, to the point where he cannot recognize others emotions. If you read the book you'll notice that he never actually says that someone is feeling something, he just describes the outward characteristics of that feeling. X was crying, rather than X was sad.
That said, I think that The Stranger and Catch 22 were the best books ever written. At least in their genres.
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Anonymous2007-10-14 2:56
camus is not just a philosopher, he is a fucking artist. that is why he is held above people like wittengenstion and hume. they wrote dialectics. camus wrote novels.
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Anonymous2007-10-14 23:01
>>14
>>camus is not a philosopher, he is a fucking artist
fixed
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Anonymous2007-10-15 4:37
The mystifying artistry that Camus created beseaches one's very bowels. His words are not unlike soft silk caressing mine rim, evoking pure joy.
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Anonymous2007-10-16 1:15
>>7
>the philosophy that says life is pointless and nothing matters. So you might as well just do whatever you feel like
lolz come back when you understand what existentialism really is.
and yes, i do understand why camus chose that style
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Anonymous2007-10-26 10:28
existentialism if not about meaninglessness. check the plague, and satre and camus' involvement in french resistance. it's just a harsh realistic way of looking at things.
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Anonymous2007-10-26 16:39
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Well said. Also in The Myth Of Sysuphus (a philosophy book by Camus), it explains a lot of that.
I like l'etranger quite a bit more than la peste, but they were both good.
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Anonymous2007-10-28 12:40
>>22
Existentialism is about meaninglessness, but people who say only that are wrong because they miss the second half of the equation. Namely, life is meaningless, so we must find our own meaning.
As camus put it (or maybe sarte?): Any reason to live, is just as good a reason to die, and therefore it is best to embrace the meaninglessness of our absurd lives.