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Letters
Letters
Camus Is Dead, Long Live Camus! • The Mice of Sisyphus • Epicurean Upgrades • Review Review • Multiverse Probabilities • Selfless Responses • Developing Intelligence • Moral Relativism Is Intelligible • Not Hitler’s Philosophers • Card-Carrying Clairvoyant
Camus Is Dead, Long Live Camus!
Dear Editor: The articles on Camus in Issue 98 revived for me very sweet memories of my student days at University College Dublin, where he was an iconic figure for undergraduate philosophy students. What a talent! And such a loss to a disillusioned generation, to whom he presented an heroic alternative to despair and suicide. His philosophy and literary achievements aside, his triumph over poverty and cultural privation make him a shining light again for the casualties of the recession. Vive Sisyphus!
Frank O’Carroll, Dublin
Dear Editor: Van Harvey’s article in Issue 98 on the possibility of living without a higher purpose was incredibly interesting. However, I am not quite sure that Harvey’s criticism of theism in an absurdist world was rightly placed.
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