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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... things in the highest degree: French, Jewish and Christian. She was a patriot who would gladly have been sent back to France to suffer and die for her compatriots: she had to die—partly, it would seem, as the result of self ...
... thing is unanswerable. Her flights of fancy of this kind must not, however, be taken as invalidating her fundamental concept of rootedness, and her warnings against the evils of an over-centralised society. This book was written during ...
... things is not felt by the normal man to be any limitation of his liberty in the domain of food. Only a child feels ... thing. OBEDIENCE Obedience is a vital need of the human soul. It is of two kinds: obedience to established rules and ...
... things in which the hope of gain is the principal motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold. There are any number of signs showing that the men of our age have now for ...
... sole, or almost the sole, measure of all things, the poison of inequality has been introduced everywhere. It is true that this inequality is mobile; it is not attached to persons, for money is made and lost; 16 THE NEED FOR ROOTS.
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