Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...team of crystal-ball-gazing scientists have predicted that within the decade it will be impossible for a man in the next room to tell whether he is talking to a man or a machine. We are nearing the ultimate in the American Dream, equality of flesh and metal...
Because he was a merciless critic of the ways of man, he nowhere suggested that his rebel is without sin, pure in his revolt against oppression. But at the end of The Plague he wrote: "There are in man more things to be admired than things to be scorned." Scorn was reserved for death, while man, with all his deceit and selfishness, was always worth the saving of himself...
...Albert Camus there were always two tyrants: history and the universe. The winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature found the deck stacked against contemporarty man, and then demanded that man fight for his freedom...
...wrote The Rebel in 1956, picturing man as the victim of a political and social world in which even his saviors seek to debase and enslave him. But he required that man revolt. He himself participated in the French underground during World War II, and in 1957 he quoted the words of Richard Hilary: "We were fighting this lie in the name of a half-truth." But he went on to say" "There are even occasions when a lie must be fought in the name of a quarter-truth. The quarter-truth...is called freedom. And freedom is the road...
...Myth of Sisyphus he confronted a still greater enemy: the universe itself. "In a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger." Yet named man, he said, must not abandon the struggle against the irrational and pitiless place that he inhabits. Camus rejected both the Leap of Faith, which begs the question, and the suicide which follows logically from despair. The hero of his existential battle gets one lucid glimpse of the finality of his situation, realizes that he is an incongruity in the universe, and then rebels against it with all his being...