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4 days ago · We like to think that justice and charity characterize our society. In Waiting for God, Simone Weil says, “We’ve invented the distinction between justice and charity.” To me, this means that in a just society there’s no need for charity. Weil believed that those who dispense money for charity do so in order to feel magnanimous.
May 12, 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.”...
6 days ago · Simone Weil, Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), p. 76; hereafter WG.
1 day ago · Thus, Simone Weil concludes: “We should pray to God like this.” “Like this,” meaning feeling our fragility better to measure how much we are given to ourselves, heartbeat after heartbeat ...
2 days ago · Philosophy in Waiting for God Attention As Simone Weil explains in her book Waiting for God, attention consists of suspending or emptying one's thought, such that one is ready to receive—to be penetrated by—the object to which one turns one's gaze, be that object one's neighbor, or ultimately, God. As Weil explains, one can love God by ...
May 6, 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 ...
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