Albert Camus

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wrong.” He maintained that suicide cannot be
regarded as an adequate response to the “experience of absurdity.” He says that
suicide is an admission of incapacity, and such an admission is inconsistent
with that human pride to which Camus openly appeals. Camus states, “there is
nothing equal to the spectacle of human pride.”
Furthermore, Camus also dealt with the topic of revolution in his essay
The Rebel. Camus rejected what he calls “metaphysical revolt,” which he sees as
a “radical refusal of the human condition as such,” resulting either in suicide
or in a “demonic attempt to remake the world in the image of man.”
Although often considered an existentialist, Camus had his own way of
thinking and often disagreed with many existentialist thinkers. Camus was a
brilliant writer as well as a philosopher and although complicated his views
will always be inspiration for further ...

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