Revolt, Freedom, Passion

Post   : Revolt, Freedom, Passion
URL    : http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/04/23/revolt-freedom-passion/
Posted : April 23, 2013 at 5:36 pm

| Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion.
| By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to
| death — and I refuse suicide.  I know, to be sure, the dull resonance that vibrates throughout
| these days.  Yet I have but a word to say:  that it is necessary.  When Nietzsche writes:
| “It clearly seems that the chief thing in heaven and on earth is to obey at length and
| in a single direction:  in the long run there results something for which it is worth
| the trouble of living on this earth as, for example, virtue, art, music, the dance,
| reason, the mind — something that transfigures, something delicate, mad, or divine,”
| he elucidates the rule of a really distinguished code of ethics.  But he also points
| the way of the absurd man.  Obeying the flame is both the easiest and the hardest thing
| to do.  However, it is good for man to judge himself occasionally.  He is alone in being
| able to do so.
|
| Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”, pp. 64–65

Albert Camus, ''The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays'',
Justin O’Brien (trans.), Random House, New York, NY, 1991.
Originally published in France as ''Le Mythe de Sisyphe''
by Librairie Gallimard, 1942.  First published in the
United States by Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.

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