Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus) offers an insight into Ivan Karamazov's oft quoted exclamantion that "everything is permitted" by arguing that it doesn't mean that nothing is forbidden but merely that morality is based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitmize it or cancel it. A moral mind must judge and consider those consequences calmly.
Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus) offers an insight into Ivan Karamazov's oft quoted exclamantion that "everything is permitted" by arguing that it doesn't mean that nothing is forbidden but merely that morality is based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitmize it or cancel it. A moral mind must judge and consider those consequences calmly.
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