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That's what Huxley called perennialism. This "wisdom of the ages" philosophy was also heavily promoted by the Royal Society, Tavistock, SRI and CIA (also through eastern influenced theosophy, new age and the hippy movement) as a new world religion of the future man.
The common critique of it would be that there's a limited set of moves one can make in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics (and all three branches of philosophy are interrelated). For example you either believe the world is purely physical and matter in flux or you believe in a metaphysical realm beside it. Or that everything is either ultimately one (monism), two (dualism) or many (polytheism and multiplicity). Here we have a third option which is the trinitarian doctrine of Christianity. It's an either/or binary and your position on it will lead to other consequences down the system. That's why people who choose the pick-and-choose preference based approach for their worldview often hold contradictory ideas. Consistency in the worldview is the lack of such contradictions.
Jesus is at odds with the worldviews of both Voltaire and Camus. Voltaire is obvious because he's very much an atheist and a poster boy for liberal progressivism and secular humanism. Camus, being an existentialist, holds that the life is meaningless, but in spite of that we must struggle to find our own made up meaning, which leads to embracing absurdism. Maybe there's a false image of Jesus reinterpreted as a zen hippy boyfriend type who's all about love and peace, man, but that's a recent invention and an apparent heresy to anyone familiar with Christian theology.
I've come to my conclusions on my own, I am not easily influenced.
I disagree.
You can fit yourself in whatever boxes you choose but when you put the rest of the world in those boxes you've lost the plot.
Honestly I don't care about your critique of philosophy, if it was valuable, if you valued it, you wouldn't be so quick to offer it.
Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about. Meaningless 😂🤣
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus
I don't offer anything and it's not valuable because it's mine but because it's true and I can make a strong case about it being the one and only true worldview in a debate. Other worldviews hold pieces of truth but they don't have the full picture. I'm not a gnostic pretending to have revealed some secret truth about the world that only I know of. I hold the Orthodox Christian worldview and adhere to the doctrines and the teachings of the Church of Christ which are available to everyone.
https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/the-meaning-of-life-albert-camus-on-faith-suicide-and-absurdity/
Do I need to paste the ending of The myth of Sisyphus to make my point clearer?
That's some serious delusion right there, it might be true to you but to believe it's true to everyone else is absolutely insane.
Camus was an absurdist, he said the only serious philosophical question was the question of suicide. To complete negate the rest of his work from a pessimistic point of view tells me more about you than him.
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." Albert Camus
"Live to the point of tears." Albert Camus
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." Albert Camus
I don't care what big think says, I care about what someone comes to think on their own.
None of the quotes you provided disproves my claim that Camus didn't see life as intrinsically meaningful. He suggested its the individual imbuing meaning in life, but that chosen meaning is a mere illusion just to get one not to self delete - an act he compared to the meaningless toil of Sisyphus. He saw man as being in an equally absurd position and he concluded we must embrace our meaningless endeavors and learn to find happiness in them ("one must imagine Sisyphus happy").
Anyway, I don't get why you're getting salty with me. You've tried calling me out on something I have pretty good knowledge on, I've proven you wrong and you tried deflecting with irrelevant quotes to the argument, attacking my source (as if I believe I'm correct because big think says so) and strawmaning my argument.