PHIL 110 Lecture 3: 9.3 - Camus cont.
30 Nov 2020
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Rising, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and monday tuesday. Wednesday thursday friday and saturday according to the same rhythm this path is easily followed most of the time. Belief in the meaning of life always implies a scale of values, a choice, our preferences. Belief in the absurd, according to our definitions, teaches the contrary. [belief] in the absurd is tantamount to substituting the quantity of experiences for the quality. If i convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd then i must say that what counts is not the best of living but the most living . To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them. Being aware of one"s life, one"s revolt, one"s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.
