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: