Learn and Expand your Mind

First, a passage by Camus:

“You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good and evil could be defined according to one’s wishes. You supposed that in the absence of any human or divine code the only values were those of the animal world – in other words, violence and cunning. Hence you concluded that man was negligible and that his soul could be killed, that in the maddest of histories the only pursuit for the individual was the adventure of power and his own morality, the realism of conquests. And, to tell the truth, I, believing I thought as you did, saw no valid argument to answer you except a fierce love of justice which, after all, seemed to me as unreasonable as the most sudden passion.

Where lay the difference? Simply that you readily accepted despair and I never yielded to it. Simply that you saw the injustice of our condition to the point of being willing to add to it, whereas it seemed to me that man must exalt justice in order to fight against eternal injustice, create happiness in order to protest against the universe of unhappiness.”

Thanks to – http://r3lativ.blogspot.se/2011/02/albert-camus-letters-to-german-friend.html

 

And here are some lectures that are well worth looking into. This presenter has provided a great service by making his channel open for others to receive a wealth of insight:

 

The Genaelogy of Morals – Nietzsche

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The Present Age – Kierkegaard