Kierkegaard:
1. (a) Interpret the following passage from Kierkegaard. How is it relevant to Camus concern?:
An old proverb fetched from the outward and visible world says: "Only the man that works gets the bread." Strangely enough this proverb does not aptly apply in the world to which it expressly belongs. For the outward world is subjected to the law of imperfection, and again and again the experience is repeated that he too who does not work gets the bread, and the he who sleeps gets it more abundantly than the man who works. In the outward world everything is made payable to the bearer, this world is in bondage to the law of indifference, and to him who has the ring, the spirit of the ring is obedient, whether he be Noureddin or Aladdin, and he who has the world's treasure, has it, however he got it. (Philistines, Knights of Infinite Resignation and Knights of Faith)
(b) Come up with at least two examples from your own life that illustrate the law of indifference.
2. Read 2nd & 3rd paragraph (the method) p. 18.
(a) What does it mean to "leap"?
(b) What does it mean to live without appeal?
3. Explain: "That revolt is the certainty of a crushing fate, without the resignation that ought to accompany it." and "The contrary of suicide is the man condemned to death."
P. 19:
(a) What is the relationship between consciousness, revolt, life?
(b) Why isn't suicide a response to the absurd?
4. (a) Explain rejection of metaphysical freedom.
(b) READ p. 29 1st full paragraph (and last sentence of previous paragraph).
(c) Explain the analogy with the mystics.
5. How do we live without appeal to a scale of values?
(a) What is implied by substituting quantity for quality of life?
(b) What are the practical implications of living an ethics of quantity of experience?
READ p. 21 last 2 paragraphs.
(c) Is is merely duration of life or something else that matters for quantity of life?
6. Facing the world: What do I do with my life?
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