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Albert Camus – The Rebel – Part 5

Revolution and Ideology

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Ivan Kalyev's Assassination of a Grand Duke

The only just qjust murder is the one in which the murderer also willingly accepts his own death. Ivan kalyev, who i'm not going to hold background on, and assassinated one of the grand dukes in 19 o five. He essentially wants to get murdered, not murdered, wants to be executed by the state. And he as already accepted his own death through this act of assassination. So anyways, that's camus, sort of like our typical example of a rebel who murders, but then is willing to sacrifice his own life. For camu, there are two types of this contradictory murder, nihilistic and historical.

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