Albert Camus · Philosophy
Camus’s turn from the solitary absurd to the shared world. In <em>The Rebel</em>, the act of saying ‘no’ to oppression reveals a ‘yes’ - a value the rebel holds in common with all humanity. Rebellion discovers human solidarity, but it also discovers a <em>limit</em>, and the murder that revolution licenses betrays rebellion’s own logic.
You learned that for Camus rebellion begins when a person says ‘no’ to what degrades them and thereby affirms a value worth defending in everyone - ‘I rebel, therefore we exist.’ Rebellion has an inner limit; when it forgets that limit and turns to murder and total revolution, it betrays itself…
Leads to Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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