The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards MankindRoutledge, 30 apr 2020 - 320 pagina's Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 41
... extent the taking into account of actual given states and particular situations. Rights are always found to be related to certain conditions. Obligations alone remain independent of conditions. They belong to a realm situated above all ...
... extent to which positive rights are in contradiction with it, to that precise extent is their origin an illegitimate one. Although this eternal obligation is coextensive with the eternal destiny of the human being, this destiny is not ...
... extent of being able to feed, clothe and house himself. For he represents nothing at all in the economic life of his country, and the voting paper which represents his share in its political life doesn't hold any meaning for him. The ...
... extent to which it is really possible for the son of a farm labourer to become one day a minister, to the same extent should it really be possible THE NEEDS OF THE SOUL 15 EQUALITY.
... extent should it really be possible for the son of a minister to become one day a farm labourer. This second possibility could never assume any noticeable proportions without a very dangerous degree of social constraint. This sort of ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankind Simone Weil Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1952 |
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind Simone Weil Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2003 |
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind Simone Weil Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2003 |