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. |
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... limited, made to balance one against the other, brought to form a united whole by something which we do not understand, but which we call beauty. If we keep ever-present in our minds the idea of a veritable human order, if we think of ...
... limited, in exactly the same way as are the foods corresponding to them. A miser never has enough gold, but the time comes when any man provided with an unlimited supply of bread finds he has had enough. Food brings satiety. The same ...
... limited in number for the mind to be able to grasp them once and for all, and not find itself brought up against them every time a decision has to be made. Under these conditions, the liberty of men of goodwill, though limited in the ...
... limited and unlimited, just as one can produce the length of a rectangle indefinitely without it ceasing to be limited in width. In the case of a human being, the intelligence can be exercised in three ways. It can work on technical ...
... limited to the field of what can be expressed in legal formulae, since that sovereignty is exercised just as well by judgments in equity. Besides, the need of freedom itself, so essential to the intellect, calls for a corresponding ...
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