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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... Social ethics. 2. Social psychology. I.Title. II. Series. HM 665.W4513 2001 3O3–3′72-dc21 2001041850 ISBN 0-203-19351-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-37420-7 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-415-27101-0 (Print Edition) (hbk) ISBN 0-415 ...
... social and political thought is very remarkable. But she had a very great soul to grow up to; and we should not criticise her philosophy at thirty-three as if it were that of a person twenty or thirty years older. In the work of such a ...
... social confusion. The realm of what is eternal, universal, unconditioned is other than the one conditioned by facts, and different ideas hold sway there, ones which are related to the most secret recesses of the human soul. Obligations ...
... social structure, relative state of forces, historical heritage, or presumed historical orientation; for no de facto situation is able to create an obligation. This obligation is not based upon any convention; for all conventions are ...
... social body is diseased, and the first duty is to attempt a cure; in certain circumstances, it may be necessary to have recourse to surgical methods. With regard to this matter, too, the obligation for those inside as for those outside ...
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