Osama QureshiReading ReflectionProf.KaabaApril 21, 2014Reflection on The Stranger by Albert CamusI found the book absolutely fascinating, to the point that it allowed me to find connections with the readings we did earlier in this course. While I'm sure that may have had something to do with me having to introduce its existential goodness to the rest of my peers, it still took a second take to really get a good sense of it. My previous understanding of existentialism thought came from the background research I did and went something like this; At its core, existentialism holds that there are no "good" or "bad" goals, that is, goodness is not a common trait among things in the universe. observable, but rather resides in the mind of the perceiver. And what follows from this is that what might be considered existentially good is doing exactly what you, as a human being, want to do. This is something that Voltaire had thought about and wrote 2 books, Zadig and Candide, where the characters seek happiness and strive to achieve it because they feel...