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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 244: Camus on Strategies for Facing Plague (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On Albert Camus' existentialist novel The Plague. How shall we face adversity? Camus gives us colorful characters that embody various approaches. Yes, the plague is an extreme situation, but we're all dying all the time anyway, right?

Join Mark, Wes, Dylan and Seth to tease out Camus' positions from this bleak yet colorful text.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Partially Examined Life relies on your support.

0:02.5

To find out how to help in ways that are cheap or even free,

0:05.4

please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com slash support.

0:16.4

You're listening to The Partially Examined Life,

0:18.1

a podcast by some guys who had one point set on doing philosophy

0:21.3

for living but then thought better of it.

0:23.1

Our question for episode 244 is something like,

0:26.1

how shall we face adversity?

0:28.0

And we read Albert Camus, novel of the plague from 1947.

0:31.8

For more information, please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

0:34.9

This is Mark Linson Meyer, who might have been seen

0:36.9

writing a glossy solar mayor along the flowers-tune avenues

0:40.1

of the Boate, Bologna.

0:41.8

This is Seth Paskin learning nothing from history in Austin, Texas.

0:46.2

This is Dylan Casey, tending to my Bubos and swollen ganglia

0:50.6

in Madison, Wisconsin.

0:52.1

This is Wes Allen in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

0:54.6

Hey, everybody, we're doing Camus again.

0:57.5

We haven't done this in a long time.

0:59.4

How do y'all feel about that?

1:01.5

That was episode four, something like that was the last time.

1:05.0

Number four.

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