Camus: Les justes

I. Based on true story

II. Characters:

III. Assassination Attempt

-Plot:

IV. After First Failed Attempt: Debate about Kaliayev's failure to kill

-Why did Kaliayev not kill the children?

→ Stepan character: critique of Communist Party:

-Critique of Kaliayev

→ significance of second half of play

V. Moral Dilemma

A. Kaliayev: accepts that there is a constraint against killing

B. constraint against killing innocents:

→ still operative

C. Atonement

1. violation of moral constraint: a new moral duty

2. Interview with the widow, Grand Duchess in prison

3. Kaliayev: refusal. Why?

4. Camus: there are limits; not all means acceptable

VI. Potentially Consequentialist Reasoning to Account for the kinds of limits that Camus recommends

A. Disvalue of actions

B. Actions make the person:

C. Uncertainty about the means (p. 260)

VII. Fallibility about Morality:

VIII. Just War Theory: