On the Absurd | Rebekka Reinhard | TEDxUniHeidelberg
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- In her TEDx Talk Rebekka Reinhard gives us an introduction into the absurdity of daily life and an idea of absurdity in literature. We get to know why absurdity is essential for change and development of our lives.
Rebekka Reinhard is a philosopher with large experience in the theoretical and practical way of her field. In 2001, she earned her PhD from the Free University Berlin with work on contemporary American and continental philosophy. In the last decade, Rebekka worked as a philosophical counselor for individual clients as well as for in-patients suffering from depression at the clinic of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and for oncological patients. Beside this, she has been coaching and training managers and giving key note speeches for companies and global corporations. Because of her authenticity and enthusiasm, Rebekka has become a bestselling author of many books on philosophy, including „Die Sinn-Diät“, „Würde Platon Prada tragen?“ ( „Would Plato Wear Prada?“) and „Kleine Philosophie der Macht (nur für Frauen)“ („Small Philosophy of Power: for Women Only“). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Camus had three options; suicide, moral suicide (religion, distraction, not thinking) and the absurd man (rebel against both). One must imagine Sisyphus is happy...
Brad Scott don’t be so absurd
U just summarised the whole I found for past two years
And yet he could never find out what the recipe for MacDonalds secret sauce.
Brilliant!
I think she missed the point of Camus's writing
Yeah the talk is way off
Absolutely... I was searching for such comment and am so glad I found one
She clearly don't understand what is really the absurd (according to Camus)
YEEES she missed it! Camus wasn't an Existantialist at all, and he never said that Absurdity is a problem as she claimed, yet in fact Camus says that "One must imagine Sisyphus Happy" which literally means to accept the arbitrariness, the meaningless and the absurdity of this life and Universe!!
@@yassinejm7734 Thank you!! I was actually just rereading The Myth of Sisyphus. I definitely did a double take as she was misrepresenting him. He actually makes the argument that she did! Describing Sisyphus, he says that the absurdity is only tragic because he is conscious!
As an absurdist, I think she's wrong. But as an absurdist, I don't really care.
As an absurdist I have to say something about this. Something about this.
@@GODCONVOYPRIME An absurdist would never say that! you lie!
@@andydee1304 I never lie! Except when the cookies go mysteriously missing, then it's just a random incident of pastry robbery! Now, let's all have nachos!
@@GODCONVOYPRIME call the police.
@@andydee1304 the roof is on fire!
I love this! I'm so glad we have moved beyond the ideas of suicide or silence in response to the absurd! Yes, we live in a senseless out of control zoo. Finding meaning, joy, and adventure in the absurd is the path to freedom
@@ReconditeDeity Great question. It's difficult to quantify. It has taken me years, and much work on myself, but it's a skill I'm still seeking to perfect. I have found that it is possible to completely transform one's experience of the absurd. I think if one can do this for even a few seconds, this is wonderful. LIfe can be profoundly cruel absurd, and insane, finding a path above the suffering is a compelling journey worth taking, even if success is elusive.
Wanting to add my two bits to the topic, camus wanted to embrace it, expecting of us daily to be reminded of the absurdity of the world, the meaningless void and the meaningfull revolt without any hope, living for the sake of life.
I always have to remind myself every day about the absurd. It takes practice and discipline but once you become an absurd hero. It increases your freedom of action and reduces your hope. Becoming more of a dangerous and spontaneous man in this indifferent world.
Unless one is being very charitable, she gets not only Camus, but almost everything else wrong. She's a fraud. Can't you tell just by the exaggerated way she speaks? She has so little self-awareness, my narcissist alarms are going off.
You can't talk about existentialism without affecting a French accent. Fact.
From what I understand humanity desires to live life with clear, deliberate intention which is impossible without infallible comprehension.
To live without infallible comprehension is to live in the deception of the absurd making your perception of meaning impossible.
And any actions you take is a result of that deception.
To be human is to be fallible.. it‘s not surprising that Camus thought of the world as being non-sensical - he lived through 2 world wars and his father fell in the first world war when he was 1
To be more precise, the absurd is the confrontation of our human desire for meaning and the complete indifference of the universe towards our questioning.
It is not my understanding that just getting what you want solves Camus's idea of absurdity. "The search for meaning in a meaningless and indeffrent world" and "I want a baby and my sister doesn't but she got one" can coexist. She didn't negate the existential idea of absurdity. "Imagine going on vacation and never getting sick or having your children born at the perfect time" that doesn't address Camus's idea of the absurd at all. Nice talk but missed the mark.
Agree 100%
The first one is an example for an absurd situation, the second one is an example for a world w/o the absurd.
I love her unique style of presentation!
If you think she doesn't understand Camus, I don't think you understand this talk.
It must be nice to have such incredibly low standards. I envy you.
Sorry, that was mean. But this talk is TERRIBLE.
Just this afternoon I was doing an essay on Waiting for Godot. Jajajaj
This woman does not understand Albert Camus
Camus was adamant about maintaining absurdity
I guess you could say, he had Adamantium resolve.
I feel at home in this comment section. Never have I been somewhere where so many people understand and discuss absurdism 😌
Hey Justin...Welcome to the club!
I find your comment pointless and utterly without meaning.
"A hamster doesn't worry about his rent." Hamsters don't PAY rent, lady.
Also, there's nothing absurd about worrying about your rent, or being unable to pay it, or whatever she's trying to say with this example. When philosophers talk about the absurd, it doesn't have anything to do with getting or not getting what you want. It's about how most people, generally speaking, like to think that their lives have meaning, but the universe--or the parts of it that aren't people anyway--doesn't offer such a meaning. Also notice how her examples "The Metamophosis" and "Waiting For Godot" don't have anything to do with what she has to say. She has no idea what she's talking about, she's just heard of some things that are associated with "the absurd" and cobbled them together without thinking about what they mean or relate to each other. If this weren't 6 years old, I'd say it was written by an AI.
So, more of the old fake optimism we've been getting fed for the past few decades. I won't do that. We can agree on the ridiculousness of this absurd thing called life. That's a start.
Fantastic
great talk
I needed this
Very comforting but I lean to disagree. I do think she understood Camus somewhat but I don't intuitively agree to some of her claims.
Wonderful :)
Excellent
yoo when?
Isn't this pretty much just the existentialist argument of making your own meaning in a meaningless world?
wow!she makes a good Viking!
Absurd presentation style
What's the only stability in a world of instability? Bingo: instability itself.
Isn't this why Heidegger acknowledged the value of Taoism?
A complete straw man of Camus' thoughts on The Absurd; as if Reinhard had just read a badly researched pamphlet on the matter. Possibly a case of running head long into an Equivocation fallacy too, if I'm understanding her properly. An absurd delivery, perhaps, but not very illuminating when it comes to The Absurd.
I shall try to view the world hamster-centrically. I had been caught in the grindings of Camus I do hope the more rodent stance is sweeter.
I am confused indeed
Diogenes & Camus
The most absurd thing I've ever heard!
But what of the droid attack on the wookies?
😘😘😘😘😘
AMOR FATI
This woman is a bad philosopher - she got Albert Camus all wrong + her examples of "The Absurd" were way off target🙄🙄- I expected better, TEDDY😬😬
She is not saying anything new, these are the exacts words of Albert Camus...
How is she doing a lecture on absurdity and can’t even pronounce the word ‘absurd ‘...?
It's okay, she's German
a s - It’s nott... haha
Do you speak German?
That’s absurd!
That itself is absurd