Re:Simone Weil’s Great Awakening
by hprotagonist on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @05:00PM
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may i recommend dorothy day as the shot/chaser combo thinker to Weil?
doxis needs praxis, and vice versa.
Re:Simone Weil’s Great Awakening
by gchamonlive on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @05:06PM
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Neat, thanks!
I think an interested reader can get a lot of Gravity & Grace (which I recently completed) without much background in philosophy so long as one accepts that they won't understand _everything_ she writes. Given the mystical nature of some of her work, complete understanding is likely impossible anyway, but that doesn't take away from the rewards of studying the work. That being said, the Iliad and Bhagavad Gita seem as important to her work as more recent philosophers like Hume.
Is there a translation or edition you recommend?
It's very fragmented, but there were lots of hidden gems.
Re:Simone Weil’s Great Awakening
by moralestapia on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @10:27PM
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I absolutely love this book and heartily recommend it. Pick one or two stories per day and ponder them for some time. It will amaze you.
Btw, if someone here could recommend books on this level, please do, they would be much appreciated.
For all those like me that don't have the necessary expertise to assimilate the original philosophical texts, I would recommend the excellent work done by Stephen West in his podcast Philosophize This. You might need to consume the work from David Hume onwards up until Simone Weil to get a good understanding, if like me you had no previous formal instruction in philosophy, but it's totally worth the effort.