Please refer to original published version. By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. *This is a non-formatted version of the paper that appears in Philosophy Today, (Volume 61:3, Summer 2017, pp. Summary: By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. Finally, Camus appreciated that such self-mastery can only be achieved through an “ascesis” or “a difficult science of living”, and through the imitation of the kind of exemplars he holds up before us in his literary fiction. Publication date 1961 Topics Good and evil Publisher New York Knopf Collection inlibrary. Thirdly Camus conceives of the virtues (led by his versions of the four cardinals: courage, mesure, justice and a directive “lucidity”) as necessary accomplishments if people are to live fulfilled lives. The rebel an essay on man in revolt by Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Secondly, he conceives the virtues as mastering the untethered passions: the sources of epistemic partiality and behavioural excess. Firstly, he understands the virtues as lasting, beneficent dispositions to think, feel, and act in certain ways.

Albert Camus can be meaningfully read as an agent-focussed virtue ethicist, as David Sherman has suggested.* Yet moving beyond Sherman’s version of this claim, we show here how Camus accepts four definitive parameters of the classical authors’ conception of the virtues-the last of which in addition takes him beyond today’s recognised virtue ethics.