Albert II

“Meursault is a body without a soul. His pleasures and discomforts are purely tactile and sensory, with no admixture of emotion or spiritual awareness.” Meursault is the narrator and main character of Albert Camus’s novel The Stranger. Looking into the title of the novel deeper, one can refer to “the stranger” as Meursault. Referring to Meursault as a body without a soul is a very accurate description of him. He does not show any emotion to the people around him and his feelings are very…

autopilot and then had to ask myself how I arrived there, my mind so focused on other things that my driving habits just automatically lead me to my physical location. Another theory of personality is Social-Cognitive Learning Theory, established by Albert Bandura. It states that individuals’ personalities are shaped by other people’s actions plus individuals’ own expectancies about learning. Some parts of the Social Cognitive Perspective are similar to Behaviorism, the Social Cognitive…

Now the dilemma is what should we do with this “Absurd Condition” we find ourselves in? In Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus, he proclaims that accepting the absurd- not denying it or giving into the mechanisms of eluding- and still rising above it to live life to the fullest is the best answer; not philosophical, physical, or logical suicide…

similarities through their existentialist views of life, actions towards others, and wanting of escape from the real world or conscience world. These character similarities suggest similarities in the views of the two authors Fyodor Dostoevsky and Albert Camus. The two authors are trying to convey slightly different, yet almost identical existentialist views to the reader. These views can be seen very much in the characters of Meursault and Risk. Both Raskolnikov and Meursault share…

Albert Bandura, a psychologist and professor at Stanford University, conducted an experiment to explore the effects of modeling on aggression. As the creator of social learning theory, Dr. Bandura explores the effect his theory has on children. He begins the segment by introducing the experiment. Preschool children were exposed to videos of adults performing novel aggressive acts on an inflatable doll, which is referred to as the Bobo doll and is where the experiment derives its name. In the…

Absurdism is defined as “the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any” (Absurdism). Albert Camus’ The Stranger exemplifies the Absurdist point of view, as shown by the main character Meursault and the world he lives in. Meursault, though never voicing these exact words, lives in a chaotic world that is indifferent to human plight, so he decides to do what he wants to do to make himself satisfied. The only insight on…

Perhaps one of the most profound and influential geniuses of our time was Albert Einstein, a theoretical physicist who is credited with the development of the theory of relativity, which has become a monumentally influential development in the field of physics. This famous, nobel-prize winning scientist originated from rather humble beginnings. Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879 in Germany. His father was a engineer and salesman while his mother stayed at home with the children. The family…

Existentialism, as a branch of philosophy, would suggest that the correspondent has recognized the “absurdity” in life. Absurdity is the frustration people encounter when their human instinct to seek order, purpose, and meaning is challenged by the refusal of the world to be orderly or meaningful. Indeed, the narrator states “The whole affair is absurd” (Crane 212). Robert C. Solomon, in his book Existentialism, further illuminates the narrator’s state: The existential attitude is, first of all…

Richard Cory: True vs Apperecur Happiness I was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Me and my family are a middle class family and we are Jews. My father is Otto Frank and my mother is Edith Frank and my sister Margot. I go to a wonderful school and have lot of friends. But my father said that we will be moving to Amsterdam in a week which means I will have to make new friends all over again. A week has past and we are all packed ready to go to Amsterdam i said my goodbye to my…

Nagel belief is that everything is absurd in life. He believes that life has no tangible meaning and there is no reason why we should think we could make life meaningful at all. But, we continue to live with defiance, despair, or with an ironic smile. Life is not as important as we had once thought, but that is not a reason to hate life or to feel sadness. Nagel does not believe that life is absurd is about life meaning nothing because it will mean nothing in the distant future. He says “In…