One of Camus' primary arguments in The Rebel concerns the motivation for rebellion and revolution. While the two acts - which can be interpreted from Camus' writing as states of being - are radically different in most respects, they both stem from a basic human rejection of normative justice. If human beings become disenchanted with contemporary applications of justice, Camus suggests that they rebel. This rebellion, then, is the product of a basic contradiction between the human mind's unceasing quest for clarification and the fundamentally meaningless nature of the world. Qualified by Camus as absurd, this contradiction must be undertaken with what Camus terms "lucidity." Only a person conscious of the world's patent absurdity can successfully rebel, Camus suggests, for any attempt at re