The Ethical Pragmatism of Albert Camus

Download or read book The Ethical Pragmatism of Albert Camus written by Dean Vasil and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what, since the age of its Enlightenment, the West has perceived to be an absurd universe, it has had continually to choose between two ways of life as consequences of that perception and of the movement which gave it rise: these are the way of ethics and the way of modern historicist ideology, the way of a moral imperative without God and that of the will to become God in His place. The first is illogical, but the second is irrational, «la prédication de la surhumanité, » as Camus says, «aboutissant à la fabrication méthodique des sous-hommes.» The way of ethics or of man as an end in himself is the way of Camus as well, and one the reflection of whose origins and raison d'être in his own thought is the subject of the two studies in the present essay.