The atheism of Albert Camus: A critical evaluation from the perspective of the concept of God as relation
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2007
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In all anthologies of existentialist philosophy, Albert Camus has been a regular member of the atheistic bloc. Just as his being existentialist is contested, so too is his atheism. For most readers, he is an atheist. But Camus seemed to be a reserved atheist. This has caused growing variant opinions among his commentators. The preoccupation in this work is not to take into serious study of each of these different opinions as regards Camus atheism. What is clearly imperative is the fact that it calls for a clarification of the issue at stake. There is no one in a better position to settle the issue but Albert Camus himself. The endeavor in fact is not an easy task because Camus did not leave us with a single philosophical treatise which will provide us with answers to the questions we ask. To venture into this problem, therefore, one has to study all available materials, decipher traces of his atheistic thoughts, and weigh them up whether, in one way or another, they can shed us with some light into the obscurity of his atheistic stance. The fact is Camus himself is ambiguous. But such ambiguity should not prevent us from making a clear position with regard to the issue. In the course of a thorough exposition of his atheistic thoughts and on his treatments of religious beliefs, particularly to that of the Christians, where we found him unsatisfactorily had established atheistic propositions coupled with his own declaration that his position is blasphemy, not atheism as expounded in The Rebel, then such utterance which is directly coming from his lips is, I think, beyond discussion. Moreover, to establish that Camus has a sense of transcendence, we would like to unfold his inclination towards monasticism in all its rigorous practices, his recognition of a higher decree that authorized one happiness, in his personal correspondence which states that God, for him, remains individual greatest possibility, his own longing for immortality, his profound sympathy with Christianity in spite of his severe treatment in most of the times, and finally, in his insistence of hope in the midst of an absurd existence. Thus, Camus, in the truest sense, cannot be an atheist. We would like to make our position, however, clear. Camus and Christianity cannot be forcibly lumped together. In the course of this study, aside from many parallelisms of Camus thoughts with Christian teachings and even
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| Authors | Licayan, Herman Labor |
| Journal | Malay Journal |
| Year | 2007 |
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