Philosophy professor, Dr. Daniel Deen, discusses Albert Camus, The Plague at a Talk-O-Talk, which is the academic discussion hosted by Dr. Kristen Koenig at the Bella Amore Living-Learning Community at Concordia Irvine. This term, most of our public recordings will be before a live, limited, and distanced “studio audience” of Living-Learning Community residents, but also before a larger livestreamed audience.
Dr. Daniel Deen earned his PhD. in 2015 from Florida State University, under adviser Michael Ruse and oversees core philosophy and the philosophy minor at CUI. He specializes in the philosophy of science.
Content Warning: Suicide is discussed briefly, in light of the philosophical approach to the relevance to this topic in Camus’ thought.
…there exists an admirable, even if secular, beautiful love that seems so close yet so far from that Christian vision of this actual university. Yet here we are: Christians, atheists, agnostics, the others, locked down due to losing our happy micro-city to a virus, dealing death to all that was, except our ability to ask questions. How ought I to live, and who is my neighbor? And as we struggle to answer these questions, perhaps we also will stumble upon together an art of life against that instinct of death.