Word: camus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voters in Mississippi, he has been beaten, burned, stabbed and shot at; he is now so hardened to it all that he can take a snooze in a car that is being chased by rednecks. Who is Moses' revolutionary mentor? Marx? Mao Tse-tung? No, it is Albert Camus, who preaches a form of rebellion that never loses sight of individual values. "It's important to recognize in the struggle certain humanitarian values," Moses told Warren, "to recognize that you have to struggle for people, and at the same time-if it's possible...
...dichotomy," continues Moses, who earned an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard, "is whether you can cease to be a victim any more and also not be what Camus calls an executioner. The ideal lies between these two extremes -victim and executioner. For when people rise up and change their status, usually somewhere along the line they become executioners, and they get involved in subjugating other people. The problem is whether you can move Negro people from the place where they are now the victims of this kind of hatred to a place where they don't in turn perpetuate...
...having survived," he answered. Actually, Hines is probably destined to be remembered, like his predecessor, as a churchman dedicated to righting social wrong. He accepts the judgment of Albert Camus on the churches: "What the world expects is that the Christian should speak out, loud and clear-and pay up personally...
...Cult of Audacity. The stumbling block in any apologia for the French-or Russian-Revolution is simply that lofty idealism generated appallingly barbaric action. The paradox has been noted not only by class-conscious conservatives, as Palmer suggests, but also by such unimpeachable libertarians as Albert Camus and George Orwell. Palmer writes caustically of the British Establishment that scorned dem ocratic principles in the shrewd pursuit of its own self-interest. But when French arms were triumphant in 1794 and Britain's security endangered, the government in London indicted only a few persons for treason; and, though far more...
...five basic questions: "What did Jesus say? Why did he say it? What did he do? Why did he do it? And, finally, what is the significance of the answers to these questions to me as an individual?" In pursuit of the answers, Inter-Varsity members read Salinger and Camus along with the Bible...