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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... reason that he or she is a human being, without any other condition requiring to be fulfilled, and even without any recognition of such obligation on the part of the individual concerned. This obligation is not based upon any de facto ...
... reason, therefore, why the exercise of important public functions should carry with it serious personal risks. Another way of rendering equality compatible with differen tiation would be to take away as far as possible all quantitative ...
... reason. Writers have an outrageous habit of playing a double game. Never so much as in our age have they claimed the rôle of directors of conscience and exercised it. Actually, during the years immediately preceding the war, no one ...
... reason at all why the sovereignty of the law should be 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 ...
... reason why it need be put into execution by any persons other than those who approve of it. In the working-class movement, for example, such a distinction would put an end to the present inextricable confusion. In the period before the ...
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