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Lillian P.
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"It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole of temporality in order to win eternity, but I do indeed win it and cannot in all eternity renounce that, for that would be a self-contradiction; but it takes a paradoxical and humble courage then to grasp the whole of temporality on the strength of the absurd, and that courage is the courage of faith."
Certainly different from Camus' absurd.
— 3 hours, 36 min ago
Certainly different from Camus' absurd.
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Lillian P.
is on page 57 of 152
"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what then would life be but despair?"
Camus calls this "philosophical suicide," but his writing has no lack of "despair," so maybe Kierkegaard's right.
— Jan 22, 2026 09:32AM
Camus calls this "philosophical suicide," but his writing has no lack of "despair," so maybe Kierkegaard's right.
Lillian P.
is on page 41 of 152
Bruh introduction was so dull and now I feel like I should have read Hegel first... but here we go...
— Jan 20, 2026 11:59AM
