Camus leaned towards humanism and wasn’t anywhere near as fucked in the head as the rest of his pals, Sartre was completely deranged. My point stands though, Camus’ nihilistic world view served as a precursor to the the shitty identity politics way of looking at the world in which every interpersonal interaction is an expression of a power imbalance that can and should be leveraged by the enlightened would-be philosopher king. Machiavellian/Platonist/Hegelian jerkoffery
He doesn’t advocate for philosopher kings explicitly but that is the attitude behind the arrogance of the existentialists as a whole. They assume their intellect is the source of their virtue
IIRC, Camus fell out with Sarte over what he saw as the excesses of the Soviets.
Camus leaned towards humanism and wasn’t anywhere near as fucked in the head as the rest of his pals, Sartre was completely deranged. My point stands though, Camus’ nihilistic world view served as a precursor to the the shitty identity politics way of looking at the world in which every interpersonal interaction is an expression of a power imbalance that can and should be leveraged by the enlightened would-be philosopher king. Machiavellian/Platonist/Hegelian jerkoffery
No where does Camus advocate for Platonic philosopher kings. Camus' rebellion is personal. He's specific about this.
He doesn’t advocate for philosopher kings explicitly but that is the attitude behind the arrogance of the existentialists as a whole. They assume their intellect is the source of their virtue