Albert Camus · Philosophy
Camus’s mature answer to nihilism. Beyond the absurd and rebellion lies a positive ethic: Mediterranean ‘measure,’ the solidarity of common decency embodied in <em>The Plague</em>, and the discovery - ‘in the midst of winter’ - of an inner summer that no darkness can defeat. How to live fully in a world that offers no guarantee.
You learned that Camus answers nihilism not with a proof but with a way of living: the ‘invincible summer’ of an inner strength that survives despair, the ‘measure’ that resists all-consuming ideologies, and the ‘common decency’ of The Plague ’s Dr. Rieux, who fights suffering…
Leads to Marcus Aurelius.
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