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Tag Archives: Simone Weil
Simone Weil: Reflections on barbarism (1939)
Many people nowadays, moved by the horrors of every kind that our time provides in a number overwhelming for anyone the least bit sensitive, think that, as a result of an excessively great technical power, or a kind of moral … Continue reading
Simone Weil: The power of words (1937)
In every sphere, we seem to have lost the very elements of intelligence: the ideas of limit, measure, degree, proportion, relation, comparison, contingency, interdependence, interrelation of means and ends. To keep to the social level, our political universe is peopled … Continue reading
Simone Weil: Reflections on War
The perspectives of a revolution seem therefore quite restricted. For can a revolution avoid war? It is, however, on this feeble chance that we must stake everything or abandon all hope. Simone Weil The masks have fallen away, or they … Continue reading
Simone Weil: The waning of the working class, technique and the rise of fascism
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labour which characterizes the society we are aiming at. … Continue reading
Simone Weil: La Personne et le sacré/Human Personality
Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: “Why am I being hurt?” harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why … Continue reading
Simone Weil: the Iliad is the purest and the loveliest of mirrors
Perhaps all men, by the very act of being born, are destined to suffer violence; yet this is a truth to which circumstance shuts men’s eyes. The strong are, as a matter of fact, never absolutely strong, nor are the … Continue reading
Anarchism and mysticism: anarchist ecology as respect for the earthly sacred
by Simón Royo Hernández Redes Libertarias, 19/04/2026 That man is just who is informed with and transformed into justice. Meister Eckhart, Sermon Fifty-Nine (Pf 59, Q 39, QT 25) I to myself would live,To enjoy the blessings that to Heaven … Continue reading →