Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Re-Thinking Thinking

Existential Comics enlists existentialist/absurdist philosopher Albert Camus to demonstrate to a couple of physicists why they shouldn't think that the only thinking is done within their own discipline.

The physicists bully a couple of Greek-robed philosophers. But Camus confronts them with his notion that the only real philosophical question is suicide -- whether the actual suicide of despair at life's meaninglessness or philosophical suicide by embracing the idea that external sources such as religion give life meaning.

But Camus also upbraids the philosophers for being the kind of dorks that are ripe for being picking on. You know, the kind of discussion philosophers have all of the time anyway: Who are the biggest dorks -- us or the scientists? There are some deep issues involved, after all.

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