Meursault vs Priest
www.reddit.com — 22 sep 2026Absurd explains why Meursault even bothers to go to his mother’s funeral, why he kills an arab. Because why not. But why would Camus write him angry…
Is 'we're all just in a waiting room' a valid existentialist position, or does it sneak in too much obligation?
www.reddit.com — 21 sep 2026I recently spoke with classicist Edith Hall about a line of thinking she returns to often in her work, if you don't believe in an afterlife,…
If you knew the “rhythm” of your life in advance, would you live differently?
www.reddit.com — 21 sep 2026Recently, I came across a traditional Chinese system of fortune-telling called Bazi (八字), or the “Eight Characters.” It interprets a person's…
Our collective stubbornness is an act of Bad Faith: Facing the existential anxiety of adapting to an indifferent universe.
www.reddit.com — 20 sep 2026When analysing existential risk whether it is climate collapse, systemic decay, or war we tend to treat the threats as purely physical, external…
Je suis musulman mais je trouve du réconfort chez camus
www.reddit.com — 19 sep 2026Es ce que c'est bizarre de trouver du réconfort dans l absurde et le mythe de sysiphe ou l'étranger tout en étant musulman donc penser que…
French existentialism is shallow compared to its german precursor
www.reddit.com — 17 sep 2026I found an interesting video about Heidegger vs. Sartre that i think interesting to discuss. When we talk about existentialism, its easy to connect…
Nihilism Vs Happy Nihilism
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Existentialism/Spiritual bent book club
www.reddit.com — 12 sep 2026Hello to whomever, A friend and I are in a book club together, down to just us from more members when we started up as a Carl Jung book club 2 years…
Is revolt actually just acceptance?
www.reddit.com — 10 sep 2026Ive been trying to engage with absurdism critically and I am really struggling with the framing of revolt. If revolt, to the best of my…
Help with a freinds explanation?
www.reddit.com — 6 sep 2026My freind was talking about philosophy and said he's a "Atheistic existentialism with an absurdist, humanistic outlook." He kind of…
HELP! How do i understand the text and context of all these philosophy books and essays?
www.reddit.com — 4 sep 2026So I'm 18 and nor english neither any other European language is my native language, i love to indulge into philosophical conversations and i…
Is absurdism just a leap of faith into metaphor?
www.reddit.com — 3 sep 2026I genuinely dont understand why camus preaches honesty and total lucidity as the core virtues of absurdism, slams philosophical suicide and thinkers…
Heidegger’s "Anxiety at the Source" and Camus’s Birth of the Absurd — How do you sit with the unmasking?
www.reddit.com — 30 aug 2026I’ve been sitting with the connection between Heidegger’s concept of anxiety (Angst) and Camus’s description of the Absurd in The Myth of Sisyphus,…
Just finished Simone de Beauvoir’s All Men Are Mortal — looking to discuss mortality vs. meaning
www.reddit.com — 29 aug 2026I just wrapped this up and am sitting with the heavy, fascinating contrast between Fosca’s curse of endless time and the brief, frantic lives of the…
THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY: NIGHTMARE or NIRVANA?
www.reddit.com — 28 aug 2026The full essay shows the Existentialist underpinning to the story related in the Genesis concept album 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'. As…