Episode #228 ... Albert Camus - Kafka and The Fall

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  So this whole series so far has been about this project that Camus dedicated his life to,

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  where he wants to affirm the kinds of creatures that we are without falling into the trap of system building.

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  If in the myth of Sisyphus, Camus shows us the importance of lucidity in the face of the absurd.

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  If in the plague he shows us how,

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  when we take seriously the kinds of creatures we are, it leads to solidarity with our fellow people.

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  If in the rebel he shows us how, as creatures, we have certain lines that can't be crossed.

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  And that by saying no to something,

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  we affirm the lines that cannot be crossed in the human dignity of others.

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  If these are all uncontroversial statements to make about what it is to be a human being,

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  then in Camus' next book, The Fall,

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  he's going to extend this line of reasoning to the concepts of judgment and human error,

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  or fallenness, you could say, if you want to put it in more religious terms.

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