SIO205: What Camus Can Still Teach Us
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It's time for a philosophy lesson with Jamie! She's here to teach us about one of her faves, Albert Camus. We touch on absurdism, existentialism, nihilism, and more. Camus lived and wrote during the time of literal Nazis, so his work has a lot to tell us about our current time of arguably literal Nazis. Content note: there's a brief discussion of hypothetical suicide. Here's the essay that Jamie recommends reading if you want to get a taste of Camus's writing.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 205 I'm Thomas Smith and that over there is |
| 0:36.5 | current co-host Jamie Lombardi how are you doing Jamie? I'm doing all right. Hi guys how are you? |
| 0:42.1 | We'll let them and give them a minute to answer and then yeah |
| 0:45.1 | they'll email you their answer. You love the listeners we have gotten some |
| 0:50.3 | awesome feedback lately it's been really fun so we're here to do some more and you |
| 0:56.0 | can go and correct me if I'm wrong but here's what I feel like is happening today. |
| 1:00.1 | We've covered a lot of great stuff and while you know everything we've talked about |
| 1:05.3 | you're definitely utilizing your philosophical toolkit and and everything but like today |
| 1:11.5 | we decided to be fun to actually talk about something that not is just not not just using your your training all that but is is actually related to someone you've read and studied and it will be right out of your I don't know your actual degree and |
| 1:26.3 | training is that accurate so um sort of so I I studied philosophy at Rock Rutgers and bioethics at NYU, but they were very serious analytical philosophy schools. |
| 1:41.0 | And the person we're going to be talking about today, Albert Camu, is not an analytical |
| 1:46.9 | philosopher at all. |
| 1:49.4 | And so he has never been formally assigned to me. |
| 1:54.0 | I've never officially studied him. |
| 1:56.7 | And of course, because analytic departments |
| 1:59.6 | sort of just gloss over the existentialists in continental philosophy more broadly. |
| 2:05.9 | So all the reading that I've done on Camu has been self-taught. |
| 2:11.0 | Self-d-dong. |
| 2:12.0 | Okay. Well that's interesting that you say that. |
| 2:13.3 | I think it could be cool to maybe remember that you're talking to a lay person and a lay |
| 2:19.2 | audience and maybe do you want to talk about the difference between kind of the analytical philosophy? |
| 2:25.6 | Because I'm glad you said that because A, that's really cool. |
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