{"id":8219,"date":"2014-01-04T11:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/the-religious-side-of-camus\/"},"modified":"2014-01-04T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T11:57:10","slug":"the-religious-side-of-camus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/04\/the-religious-side-of-camus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Religious Side of Camus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Camus\"<\/a>Albert Camus, one of the luminaries of French existentialism, died on this day in 1960, in a car crash.  He was 46.  Had he lived, he might have become a Christian. Or so it seems from Howard Mumma, Conversations with  Camus<\/a>. This second-hand report is worth considering, although it must  be consumed cum grano salis<\/em>. See also Camus the Christian?<\/a>
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Csezlaw Milosz also draws attention to Camus' religious disposition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Czeslaw Milosz<\/span>, "The Importance of Simone Weil" in Emperor of the Earth: Modes of Eccentric Vision<\/em> (University of California Press, 1977), p. 91: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Violent in her judgments and uncompromising, Simone Weil was, at least by temperament, <\/span>an Albigensian, a Cathar<\/span><\/a>; this is the key to her thought. She drew extreme conclusions from the Platonic current in Christianity. Here we touch upon hidden ties between her and Albert Camus. The first work by Camus was his university dissertation on St. Augustine. Camus, in my opinion, was also a Cathar, a pure one, ['Cathar' from Gr. katharos<\/em>, pure] and if he rejected God it was out of love for God because he was not able to justify Him. The last novel written by Camus, The Fall<\/em>, is nothing else but a treatise on Grace \u2014 absent grace \u2014 though it is also a satire: the talkative hero, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, who reverses the words of Jesus and instead of "Judge not and ye shall not be judged: gives the advice "Judge, and ye shall not be judged," could be, I have reason to suspect, Jean-Paul Sartre.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Camus will always be the outsider – and I'm proud of that, says writer's daughter<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Albert Camus, one of the luminaries of French existentialism, died on this day in 1960, in a car crash.  He was 46.  Had he lived, he might have become a Christian. Or so it seems from Howard Mumma, Conversations with  Camus. This second-hand report is worth considering, although it must  be consumed cum grano salis. See … Continue reading “The Religious Side of Camus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,145,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existentialism","category-obituaries","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}