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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... Once her work is known and accepted, such a preface as this should become superfluous. All of Simone Weil's work is posthumous. Gravity and Grace—the selection from her voluminous notebooks made by M. Thibon, and the first volume to ...
... once a condemnation of the French Revolution and a powerful argument against the possibility of a restoration of the kingship. She cannot be classified either as a reactionary or as a socialist. This book belongs in that category of ...
... 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 sphere of action, is complete in that of conscience. For ...
... once and for all, with the sole reservation, in case of need, that the demands of conscience be satisfied. It requires to be generally recognized, and above all by leaders themselves, that consent and not fear of punishment or hope of ...
... once public, general, effective and genuinely expressed in institutions and customs, that the same amount of respect and consideration is due to every human being because this respect is due to the human being as such and is not a ...
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