![]() ![]() ![]() But in each case the values are not "given"-that is the illusionist trick played by religion or by philosophy. ![]() If we decide to live, it must be because we have decided that our personal existence has some positive value if we decide to rebel, it must be because we have decided that a human society has some positive value. Just as an earlier work of his (Le Mythe de Sisyphe)began with a meditation on living or not living-on the implications of the act of suicide-so this work begins with a meditation on enduring or not enduring-on the implications of the act of rebellion. Camus has not delivered us by rhetoric, or by any of the arts of persuasion, but by the clarity of his intelligence. After an age of anxiety, despair, and nihilism, it seems possible once more to hope-to have confidence again in man and in the future. With the publication of this book a cloud that has oppressed the European mind for more than a century begins to lift. ![]()
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