This book examines the religious, social, and political thought of Simone Weil in the context of the rigorous philosophical thinking out of which it grew. It also explores illuminating parallels between these ideas and ideas that were simultaneously being developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Simone Weil developed a conception of the relation between human beings and nature which made it difficult for her to explain mutual understanding and justice. Her wrestling with this difficulty coincided with a considerable sharpening of her religious sensibility, and led to a new concept of the natural and social orders involving a supernatural dimension, within which the concepts of beauty and justice are paramount. Professor Winch provides a fresh perspective on the complete span of Simone Weil's work, and discusses the fundamental difficulties of tracing the dividing line between philosophy and religion.
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Professor Winch provides a fresh perspective on the complete span of Simone Weil's work, and discusses the fundamental difficulties of tracing the dividing line between philosophy and religion.
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The purpose of this book is to explore some of the most important philosophical issues underlying Simone Weil's thinking. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Simone Weil, Human Personality, Poem of Force, Philosophical Remarks, King David, Trojan War, New York, Albigensian Crusade, Goethe's Faust, Philosophical Investigations New!
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- Lectures on Philosophy by Simone Weil on 31 pages
- RC Series Bundle: Oppression and Liberty (Routledge Classics) by Simone Weil on 22 pages
- Waiting for God (Perennial Classics) by Simone Weil on 13 pages
- Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 9 pages
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 8 pages
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- The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition by Gavin Flood in Back Matter
- Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy: From the Bolsheviks to Evald Ilyenkov (Modern European Philosophy) by David Bakhurst in Front Matter
- The Left in Search of a Center by Michael Crozier on page 139
- Saussure: Signs, System and Arbitrariness (Modern European Philosophy) by David Holdcroft in Front Matter
- The Act of Faith: Christian Faith and the Moral Self by Eric O. Springsted in Back Matter
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