Name: 存在主義的哲學 | 人生的意義是什麼？ | ISMs A-Z 第一集 - BBC Ideas (The philosophy of absurdism | What is the point of life? | A-Z of ISMs Episode 1 - BBC Ideas)
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Duration: 2 min 43 s

Most philosophical isms are attempts to make sense of the world.

大多數哲學主義都試圖理解這個世界。

But one ism wastes no time on this topic at all.

但有一個主義完全不浪費時間探討這個話題。

In answer to the question, what is the meaning of life?

回答「生命的意義是什麼？」這個問題。

沒有意義，沒有目的，沒有煩惱。

Life is pointless, existence is meaningless, and look how many peas I have in this pan.

生命是沒有意義的，存在是無意義的，看看我這鍋有多少豌豆。

Absurdism was pioneered by the Danish philosopher Sren Kierkegaard, who said that as the reality of God is beyond human comprehension, it is absurd for humans to have faith in God.

荒謬主義是由丹麥哲學家索倫·齊克果開創的，他說上帝的存在超越人類理解，是以人類對上帝的信仰是荒謬的。

In the 20th century, absurdists removed the concept of God entirely from the equation, choosing to make meaning and meaninglessness an entirely human issue.

在20世紀，荒謬主義者將上帝的概念完全排除在外，選擇讓意義和無意義成為純粹的人類議題。

Albert Camus believed that as life is meaningless, we can have one of two responses.

阿爾貝·卡繆認為，既然生命是沒有意義的，我們可以有兩種回應。

We can end it all, or we can find our own meaning.

我們可以結束一切，或者我們可以找到自己的意義。

You can, as one of his characters does, spend your life transferring peas from one pan to another, or you can jump off a bridge.

你可以像他的某個角色一樣，花一輩子時間把豌豆從一個鍋裡移到另一個鍋裡，或者你可以跳下橋。

荒謬主義者說，生命是荒謬的。

沒有上帝，所以一切都沒有意義。

但他們接著說，這樣也沒關係。

Absurdism is an ism whose influence has been strong in the arts.

荒謬主義是一種在藝術界影響深遠的哲學主義。

The idea that nothing has meaning is a liberating one, particularly in areas like literature and drama, which have traditionally been all about the search for meaning.

認為沒有任何事物有意義，這是一個解放性的觀點，尤其是在文學和戲劇等傳統上一直在尋找意義的領域。

Most notably, absurdism spawned the theat of the absurd, probably the only theatrical movement inspired by philosophy.

最值得注意的是，荒謬主義催生了荒謬劇場，這大概是唯一一個受哲學啟發的戲劇運動。

The Theatre of the Absurd gave us the French writer Eugene Ionesco, whose play Rhinoceros was about the dangers of conformity and featured a lot of rhinoceroses.

荒謬劇場孕育了法國作家尤內斯科，他的劇作《犀牛》探討了順從的危險，劇中出現了許多犀牛。

The Irish genius Samuel Beckett, whose work is less rhinoceros based, and The British writer N.F.

愛爾蘭天才塞繆爾·貝克特，他的作品較少以犀牛為主題，以及英國作家 N.F.

simpson, who wasn't really an absurdist at all, but

Simpson，他其實根本不是個荒謬主義者，但是

is very, very funny indeed, especially in his absurd masterpiece, A Resounding Tinkle.

真的非常非常有趣，尤其是在他荒謬的傑作《A Resounding Tinkle》中。

Beckett, by the way, could also be very serious.

順帶一提，貝克特其實也可以很嚴肅。

And as for Ionesco, the critic Kenneth Tynan famously once said, once you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, you have seen one of them, which is absurd but true.

至於尤內斯科，評論家 Kenneth Tynan 曾有句名言說，看過尤內斯科的所有劇作，就等於看過其中一部，這聽起來荒謬但卻是事實。

Absurdism suits comedy, in fact, because the best comedy is essentially absurdist.

荒謬主義其實很適合喜劇，因為最棒的喜劇本質上就是荒謬的。

And perhaps this is why absurdism will never really go away.

這或許也是為什麼荒謬主義永遠不會真正消失的原因。

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