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Camus and Absurdity
Camus is very sensitive to this negative aspect, on the affective side of things, as well as on the intellectual side: "Man finds himself to be in front of what is irrational. He feels in himself this desire for happiness and for reason. The absurd is...
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Sarte, Camus, and why they say life is absurd
Sartre In order to perfectly understand what the absurd it with Sartre (and its difference between his position and the one of Camus), it would be necessary to enter into all of his ontology, evidently something that we cannot do here. Let us only note...
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Science, Meaning, and Absurdity of Life
Will science enable us escape absurdity? One would be able to believe that it is first of all science that can make us get out of this climate of absurdity. Does not the proper scientific knowledge of life lead the greatest biologists to recognize that...
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Remorse for any death, J.L. Borges
Free of memory and of hope, limitless, abstract, almost future, the dead man is not a dead man: he is death. Like the God of the mystics, of Whom anything that could be said must be denied, the dead one, alien everywhere, is but the ruin and absence of...
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Finality, Work and Friendship
If our intelligence is made to know that which is we only come to know it little by little, for the experience of that which is (that which enable us to rediscover the realism of the intelligence) can only be the starting point that awakens questions...
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Response to Absurdity
The Response to Absurdity Only the discovery of this finality enables us to understand how one can affirm the absurdity of life. For if such living beings, in reason of the limits of its behavior and certain exterior obstacles, becomes incapable of attaining...
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Hope, Struggle, and Resurrection
Live of the Resurrection By Christian hope, it is the very mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus, his victory over sin and all of the consequences of sin that is given to us. The mystery of the Resurrection of Christ is the heart of the Christian who hopes....
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Temptation, Hope, and Resurrection
Thus there will always be these two slopes in Christian hope, and will successively have the lived experience of one or the other. And if we uniquely hold on to this partial experience, reducing the whole of the very mystery of Christian hope to it, we...
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Hope and the Meaning of Our Life
THE FULL MEANING OF OUR LIFE In this light of hope, our Christian life has its full signification, since it is the very mystery of Christ that we must live substantially already on earth. Let us not forget, in the mystery of Christ human life acquires,...
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Biology, Beauty, and Hope
The Own Matter of our Universe The very matter of our world, which our body is part of, then takes on its last signification. This matter which is already in the glorified body of Christ (since the glorious body of Christ is the one that has been formed...
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The Freedom of Beauty
Beauty, like the air, costs nothing. The earth, calm or troubled, in bloom or showing its skeleton, the seasons, the animals and flowers, the city crowds, the admirable portraits you see in an autobus, a boat, or a train; everywhere, artist, you find...
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Work, Realism, and Struggle
The remedy is therefore this realism of spirit that consists in recognizing reality as it is and to accept to cooperate with it. Is this not the foundation of all real humility (one would be able to say the foundation of all truth): to respect the other...
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The Dragon, Pride, and Work
Coming back to Reality How to respond to this exaltation of a human spirit (undergoing the influence of luciferian pride) which no longer accepts what would surpass it, that rejects the fundamental alliance with existent reality, with life, refusing it...
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Victory over Hatred
Reflecting on the Gospel reading of the day which focusses on the Beatitudes, Pope Francis described them as a “programme”, the “identity card of a Christian”. If you ask yourself how to become a good Christian, this is where you can find Jesus’s answer,...
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My Name and Trust
“Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings,” “the man who trusts in himself”: he will be “like a barren bush in the desert,” condemned by the drought to remain without fruit and to die. Pope Francis began with the day’s First Reading, which also says...
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Carrying Jesus with us
This invitation of the Father is very important. We, disciples of Jesus, are called to be people who listen to his voice and take his words seriously. To hear Jesus, it is necessary to be close to him, to follow him, as the crowds in the Gospel did who...
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Caricatures of Christian Hope
Caricatures of Christian Hope Now it is a matter of really discerning the mystery of Christian hope, and its caricatures. Does not the devil, at every epoch of the Church, try hard to caricature the work of the Holy Spirit in Her? An Assurance of Life...
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Suicide of the Spirit
The Suicide of the Sprit In man, the suicide of love and the hatred of love lead to the affirmation about the absurdity of life: life no longer has any exit, it no longer has any meaning, if there is no longer love. And this absurdity can lead to despair...
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Biology, Work, and Friendship
Discovery of Finality This realism of the intelligence will make us progressively discover the meaning of finality; and first of all at the level of the spirit. The first experience of finality is the one we have in human work. Work is always in view...
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The Mystery of Christian Hope
Christian Hope But for us, it does not suffice to understand how human life can have a meaning. It is yet necessary from the Christian point of view, to try to grasp the profound signification of hope that gives the ultimate signification to our human...
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Meaning of Life, Society, and Realism
Contestation This putting into question of the meaning of life is not at all done in a peaceful way and at the ideological level. On the contrary, it manifests itself in a violent manner and brings about calls for the most radical solutions. These are,...
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Wisdom and Council
“We know how important it is, especially in the most delicate moments, to be able to count on the advice of wise people who love us. Now, through the gift of counsel, it is God himself, with his Spirit who enlightens our hearts, so as to help us understand...
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Is Life Absurd?
Philosophies of the Absurd Let us return to the question that was asked: Does life have a meaning? You know that for a few years now several philosophers, especially Sartre and Camus, have maintained amongst young people a climate that makes it very difficult...
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The Tower of Babel and The Lost Soul
Primacy of Negation These almost daily observances which stem from a rapid and often superficial regard on reality at the philosophical level implies the affirmation of the primacy of negation: for a certain number of philosophers since Hegelianism, negation...
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Music and Friendship
The musician, thanks to the development of his art, can live in his own world: a world or rhythm, of harmonious sounds, of song. He carries in his heart, in his entire being and life, his passional, imaginative, spiritual sensibilities; he is in an ecstatic...
