Along with Sartre, Albert Camus heralded the existentialist movement in post war France, and it sometimes seems to me that of the two Camus has proved to be more contemporary, despite the far more towering stature of Sartre during his lifetime.
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Braveheart reads Camus’ The Rebel‘, in an age where rebellion is passe and conformance is haute.
The spirit of rebellion, in opposition of slightest of injustices, is an answer to our most vital social, political and metaphysical problems. It invokes a concrete moral code, rids us of the clutches of the burdens of history and blind romanticism of the future and teaches us to live in the present, in harmony with each one that surrounds us, despite everything. It’s not surprising that through true rebellion arrives the most remarkable thought of the book that answers the most fundamental doubt of human thought, “Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.”
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