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14 de mai. de 2024 · Simone Weil > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”. ― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy.
6 de mai. de 2024 · A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics. In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years later, it still animates many of the most exciting developments in the field. Kristina Armitage/ Quanta Magazine. In 1940, from a jailhouse in Rouen, France ...
Há 5 dias · The life and thought of Simone Weil is a worthy example for those of us who are modern (or postmodern) Christians. Weil is a strange but potent example of what it means to live out our faith in real life: faintly ridiculous, incomprehensible to some, but committed to compassion and standing alongside the afflicted.
14 de mai. de 2024 · Criticism of the abomination that is political parties is, of course, also always welcome, and Weil's basic points are certainly valid; as such it can also serve, limitedly, as a starting point for discussions on how to better the system (s). French philosopher Simone Weil lived 1909 to 1943.
22 de mai. de 2024 · A consideration of the literary Weil, the philosopher at the gate of the word, shows how activism and mysticism can unite within the tragedy of grace. It also explains why she is the philosopher to whom Heaney turns in order to evoke the redress that poetry, in spite of everything, can still offer.
Há 5 dias · A man, considered in isolation, only has duties, amongst which are certain duties towards himself. […] A man left alone in the universe would have no rights whatever, but he would have obligations.
12 de mai. de 2024 · Practicing attention. Weil argued that spiritual transformation cannot be achieved through sheer force of will alone. She writes, “We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.”...
