New Humanism Reconstructed On The Wasteland Of Absurd

The philosophy of Camus is the philosophy of life and morality. According to Camus, the most serious philosophical issues is that of suicide, that is the issues of the meanings of life, and the most serious moral issues is that of killing, or that of the legitimization for killing. Camus'philosophy of absurd concerns individual's suicide, his philosophy of revolt concerns the killing of community. Camus started from absurd in his philosophy, with revolt as the core. The philosophy of absurd is a kind of gloomy philosophy that has a shining aim. Camus took absurd as his first principle. He started from the faith of absurd to discuss humans'living issues and illustrate his special views on humans'living and value. Camus argued that we should face absurd directly, and by revolt give the world its meaning. This actually is a way of assuring humans'life with the suffering and death in under, a tragical optimism. Camus'philosophy of revolt, as the logical developing of his philosophy of absurd, is the metaphysical exploring of refusing absurd and nothingness. Camus viewed that revolt is the basic attribute of humans, which gives value to life. And for Camus, all revolt is metaphysical, it is the one against humans'absolute fate of death, the one calling for the uniteness of the world. The whole of the philosophy of revolt is just to refuse absurd and nothingness and assure value and limit. Revolution is the logical developing of revolt, but it is nihilistic, out of limit. Camus argued we should leave the nihilistic revolution to the revolt of creating. Camus animadverted on the nihilism, and at the same time he let out his new humanism with the background of Mediterranean Spirit ----- the thoughts of ancient Greece. Camus started from the basic point of life and humanity, emphasizing limit, abstinence and balance, advocating love, beauty and creation, seeking liberty, justice and harmony. Camus'new humanism is the reconstruction of value on the wasteland of absurd. Camus reconstructed the meanings and the values of life after the death of God and the shaking of rationality, and strove for the realizing of the ideal of liberty and justice under the world which is full of injustice and enslavement.