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Sisyphus

Thinking about Beauvoir

First off, I just want to say that today’s lecture was absolutely wonderful. Now that we’re close to ending the year (10 essays completed, 2-3 more to go) we’re all starting to approach the last few lectures left of Arts One. Today’s lecture on Beauvoir combined so many different elements of what we have learned […] Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with Beauvoir, Existentialism, free will, Sisyphus, The Second Sex

Repetition and Sisyphus

“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than … Continue reading →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb3-2013 | Tagged with Camus, literature, philosophy, Philosophy and Literature, Sisyphus

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