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  • Camus misunderstood by prof John Deigh?
    You list the novels. But have you read the essay The Myth of Sisyphus? That's where I'd draw from to point out his ethical thinking.Moliere

    I have, and the rebel is no novel either.
  • Camus misunderstood by prof John Deigh?
    Thank you for responding!

    The claim I am making here is that Prof Deigh seems to suggest that Camus is making ethical arguments, whereas, to me, he is only stating a metaphysical claim. It seems to me that there is no two ways about it. Prof Deigh explicitly attributes to Camus the argument that to live with integrity, one must make a choice from the absurd perspective. To me it seems Camus is making no such arguments. He simply does not care whether anyone lives with any kind of integrity. Camus does show us how live in moderation and integrity if one has realized the absurdity of it all (in the stranger, the plague and the rebel). But that is not the same as what prof Deigh attributes to him.
    Pretty hard for me to see how to read Camus and end up where prof Deigh seems to be. I might be wrong, that's why I asked!

Jussi Tennilä

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