The Rebel by Albert Camus

What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion. A slave who has taken orders all his life suddenly decides that he cannot obey some new command. What does he mean by saying "no"? - Opening to the Rebel.

This is Albert Camus' second treatise on philosophy. Often it is said, if the Myth of Sisyphus was about suicide, then the Rebel is about murder. Somewhat responding to political issues in the 20th century, somewhat responding to the ideas discussed last week in Kant's Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View. Camus' work wants to wrestle with the inherent tension of Justified Murder, or Rebellion for Justice. Can such concepts be utilized in this way? Wherein, historically, murder could never be justified due to its status as being an unjustified killing. Or, where rebellion was the destruction of the social order and thereby traditional concepts of justice, but the destruction aim was for traditional concepts of justice. Does this tension exist, or is it merely illusory? Perhaps it's more illusory to ignore the tension.

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Optional/supplemental resources:
Albert Camus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)