Camus's Humanism
The Algerian coast in the unrelenting sun:
Humanism as Camus envisions and lives it prizes lucidity rather than faith: facing the human situation in the world nakedly, without appeal to any of the overarching structures of meaning with which our faith-interpretations clothe the world. Lucidity is a decision, a choice, as is faith. But it is the only choice available to persons who can neither conscientiously invest themselves in what Nietzsche would have called our "human, all-too-human" attempts to go beyond tangible certainties and rationalize our life in the world, nor despair of that life by committing suicide.
James Woelfel, Camus: A Theological Perspective (1975), 60-61.
Humanism as Camus envisions and lives it prizes lucidity rather than faith: facing the human situation in the world nakedly, without appeal to any of the overarching structures of meaning with which our faith-interpretations clothe the world. Lucidity is a decision, a choice, as is faith. But it is the only choice available to persons who can neither conscientiously invest themselves in what Nietzsche would have called our "human, all-too-human" attempts to go beyond tangible certainties and rationalize our life in the world, nor despair of that life by committing suicide.
James Woelfel, Camus: A Theological Perspective (1975), 60-61.
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