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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2010
      31 March 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511624889
      9780521317436
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624889
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.337kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Modern European Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Modern European Philosophy
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    This book examines the religious, social, and political thought of Simone Weil in the context of the rigorous philosophical thinking out of which it grew. It also explores illuminating parallels between these ideas and ideas that were simultaneously being developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Simone Weil developed a conception of the relation between human beings and nature which made it difficult for her to explain mutual understanding and justice. Her wrestling with this difficulty coincided with a considerable sharpening of her religious sensibility, and led to a new concept of the natural and social orders involving a supernatural dimension, within which the concepts of beauty and justice are paramount. Professor Winch provides a fresh perspective on the complete span of Simone Weil's work, and discusses the fundamental difficulties of tracing the dividing line between philosophy and religion.

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