DE Weekly: Camus, Animals, & Human Nature

Albert Camus wrote in The Rebel, “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” This quote has stuck in my mind recently, and I’ve thought quite a bit about its meaning and everything it entails.

Camus believed humans are unique among all the creatures of the Earth, not in the least for our self-awareness of our own existence. He argued that this self-awareness, however, leads us to reject our fundamental nature.