Philosopher Profiles

Albert Camus (do not pronounce the ‘s’ for French reasons) was not exactly a philosopher. However he was quite handsome. He wrote bunch of great novels and despite his rival, Sartre, he didn't want to be a jerk, so he accepted the Nobel Prize (1957) for writing them.

His theory of Absurdity is often called the “paradox [a tradition in the French philosophical movements] of absurdity”; for some reasons (that he didn't bother mentioning) he suggested that we should be happy about the absurdity of life. This happiness should be caught by revolting against the absurdity. As a result, he used to drink coffee and smoke cigarettes in Paris until he came to say “I rebel; therefore we exist!”

Fun Things To Do:

Want to make an intellectually impressive poster for your bedroom with Photoshop? Use the photo in which Camus is smoking, and quote this sentence from his Myth of Sisyphus: “There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide”.

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