Public service and moral responsibility

Public service and moral responsibility

In my previous post I spoke about to the Théâtre de l’Absurde which is a term coined by Martin Esslin for the work of a number of playwrights, working in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. The term is derived from a short story written by Albert Camus, the Myth of Sisyphus. In his Myth of Sisyphus, written in 1942, Camus defined the human situation as basically meaningless and absurd. ...

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The Theatre of the Absurd

The Theatre of the Absurd

As I flicked through The Canberra Times on Monday (20 December 2010) the following banner screamed out at me: ACT needs to show the way with wider Human Rights Act. To say the least The Canberra Times article was couched in the most laudatory terms. Starting out with: Six years ago, the ACT made history when the Legislative Assembly enacted the Human Rights Act, the first bill of rights in ...

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