The Religious Metaphysics of Simone WeilSUNY Press, 1 gen 1994 - 219 pagine Simone Weil is one of the major religious writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a unique blend of spiritual experience, social concern, and philosophical theory. She had marvelous command of the Western philosophical tradition, yet she also had profound insights into Oriental philosophies. Since its publication in France, Veto's book has been considered by most scholars as the standard work on Simone Weil. Now this important book is available in English. It is the only available reconstruction of the entire philosophy of Simone Weil. It operates out of the perspective of the spiritual concerns of her maturity, yet it never fails to return to the issues and the positions of the early texts. It carries out the reconstruction according to some major philosophical themes, but gives its due share to the French thinkers' social and political preoccupations as well. The book is erudite, yet simple, written in a clear, concise and yet often eloquent language. |
Sommario
The Notion of Decreation | 11 |
Attention and Desire | 41 |
Energy Motives and the Void | 56 |
Suffering and Affliction | 70 |
The Experience of the Beautiful | 89 |
Time and the Self | 109 |
NonActing Action | 128 |
Conclusion | 153 |
Notes | 162 |
Chronological Table | 209 |
Suggested Reading | 213 |
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acceptance affliction André Weil Arjuna attention autonomy beautiful becomes Bhagavad Gita body Cahiers Chandogya Upanishad Christ condition consent contemplation continuity creation creature death decreative Descartes desire detachment divine essence eternity evil existence expresses fact faculty feeling freedom future goals God's Gregorian chant human idea Iliad imitation implies Incarnation intellect intelligible irreducible Joë Bousquet Kant Kantian labor matter means metaphysics moral motives natural necessity non-acting action non-perspective nothingness notion obedience object one's oneself ontological ordeal original sin pain particular passage perfect Perrin person perspective Phaedrus Philosophie physical Plato possible present process of decreation pure purposiveness quarter-hour reality redemptive suffering relation remains renunciation self-expansion sense Simone Simone Weil soul spiritual suffering supernatural supplementary energy Thibon things Timaeus transcendence true truly truth universal vegetative energy void Weil's thought