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How Albert Camus did the unthinkable

Albert Camus, the most likable Frenchman to ever walk this earth, was an atheist, an existentialist, an absurdist, and a man who ultimately denied the existence of the supernatural, being rather a creature of the flesh, living in the (then) now, not concerning himself with matters beyond the understanding of a sane man. Yet, Camus was an  ethical  man, a deeply ethical man, and more, he was an “ homme du monde ” and a man of action, he set an example of fight, of confrontation with the inexorable, and of a weird optimism about men, which went in opposite direction to most of the philosophies en vogue in his lifetime. How was that possible? What has Camus realized that escaped the attention of his contemporaries, even the brightest ones, like Sartre? How has he come to justify the existence of ethics in the world of the absurd? In the world where there is no ultimate consequence to anything a man ever does? That’s what I’ll endeavor to demonstrate here. But, first and not least...