Category: Philosophy
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Simone Weil on Work and Labor: Philosophy From the Factory Floor
Read More: Simone Weil on Work and Labor: Philosophy From the Factory FloorHow Weil’s factory experience shaped her ideas about freedom, affliction and labor.
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Simone Weil on God, Religion and Mysticism
Read More: Simone Weil on God, Religion and MysticismHow Simone Weil’s religious experiences and ideas fit together, and where scholars disagree about her relation to Christianity and the…
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Simone Weil on Oppression and Liberty: Her Political Thought
Read More: Simone Weil on Oppression and Liberty: Her Political ThoughtA guide to Simone Weil’s political thought: what she meant by oppression, why she distrusted revolution and parties, and how…
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Decreation in Simone Weil: The Idea of Self-Emptying
Read More: Decreation in Simone Weil: The Idea of Self-EmptyingWeil’s decreation names the self-emptying that lets the world and others be received as they are. This guide explains it…
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Simone Weil and Plato: How She Read the Greeks
Read More: Simone Weil and Plato: How She Read the GreeksA plain guide to Plato’s place in Simone Weil’s thought.
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Affliction (Malheur) in Simone Weil: What Her Term Means
Read More: Affliction (Malheur) in Simone Weil: What Her Term MeansWeil’s term malheur names suffering that uproots a life in body, mind and society. This guide explains it using the…
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Simone Weil on Obligations and Rights: Duties Before Claims
Read More: Simone Weil on Obligations and Rights: Duties Before ClaimsWhy Simone Weil criticized rights as reliant on force, how she set obligation and justice against them, and what The…
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Simone Weil on Force: Reading The Iliad, or the Poem of Force
Read More: Simone Weil on Force: Reading The Iliad, or the Poem of ForceA plain guide to Simone Weil’s idea of force and her essay on the Iliad.
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Gravity and Grace in Simone Weil: Two Forces Explained
Read More: Gravity and Grace in Simone Weil: Two Forces ExplainedWhat gravity (pesanteur) and grace mean in Simone Weil’s thought, how they relate to the void, attention and decreation, and…
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Simone Weil: Life, Work and Legacy
Read More: Simone Weil: Life, Work and LegacyA sourced outline of Simone Weil’s life, from Paris and the classroom to the factory, Spain, Marseille and London.