Albert Camus

 Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French Algerian who played soccer in the B league of France. Camus was a goalkeeper who played for a team in the second league of France professionally. Camus learned from playing a sport that a sport can teach individuals discipline and how to work together for the common good. Camus acknowledged that he learned about morality from playing a sport. 

Camus may have learned that in sports there are specific rules and that a team is supposed to work together for the good of the team. Camus learned morality and ethics from playing a sport professionally. Camus was impressive for playing in a professional league and also learning life lessons from playing sports including the need to practice empathy and remove cheating and deceit.

Camus would retire from playing professional soccer and became a philosopher. Camus was able to be a writer that described important themes and ideas. Camus argued about the importance of morality and of having meaning and purpose. Camus would join the socialist party in France thinking that he needed to be a part of a group of individuals to effect change, yet realized that socialism does not benefit neither an individual nor a country. Camus would have a falling out with the socialist party in France after not obeying the orders of the french socialist leaders. Camus was independent and different and did not feel that he needed to be a sycophant. Free thinking and distinct, Camus decided to leave the socialist party in France. 

Camus would then decide to write extensively for multiple years and was considered one of the top French philosophers of all times. Camus also fought against the nazi socialists when the nazi socialists invaded France in the 1940s. Camus wrote in pamphlets and publications about the need to resist nazi socialism and was a fierce opponent of nazi socialism. His publications helped inspire individuals to resist and fight nazi socialism. Camus wrote multiple books and is considered one of the best philosophers of France. Camus would die in a car crash and there are questions concerning if the car crash was an accident or retaliation for not keeping to socialist sycophantry. Camus probably was persecuted after fleeing socialism yet kept courage. Camus was impressive for playing a sport professionally, renouncing socialism, fighting against nazi socialism, and staying true to his ideals of morality and ethics. Like Frederic Bastiat, Camus believed in individuality and avoided socialism.