Comments on: Weil and the pagans http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/ Fragments Shored Against Our Ruin Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: The goals of theology « Dreaming the Future Closer http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/#comment-588 The goals of theology « Dreaming the Future Closer Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:43:06 +0000 http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/#comment-588 [...] it unilaterally.  I much prefer a theology developed after Simone Weil (like I discussed way back here) than one modeled after [...] [...] it unilaterally.  I much prefer a theology developed after Simone Weil (like I discussed way back here) than one modeled after [...]

]]> By: Ian http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/#comment-408 Ian Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:20:11 +0000 http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/#comment-408 She's someone who gets under-representated pretty easily;-). She's an intense, penetrating thinker, but she has some really weird blindspots that makes it easy to psychologize her ideas, reduce examinations of them to character portraiture. I can see how that might move her down the list of 'must haves.' She is also really peculiar in her refusal to buy into many 'basic' terms, like 'human rights.' When you read her reasons for her disavowal, it's impressive stuff, but that's a heavy price of admission for some people. It's sort of Levinas before the fact, minus his (occasionally tiresome) phenomenological baggage. She’s someone who gets under-representated pretty easily;-). She’s an intense, penetrating thinker, but she has some really weird blindspots that makes it easy to psychologize her ideas, reduce examinations of them to character portraiture. I can see how that might move her down the list of ‘must haves.’

She is also really peculiar in her refusal to buy into many ‘basic’ terms, like ‘human rights.’ When you read her reasons for her disavowal, it’s impressive stuff, but that’s a heavy price of admission for some people. It’s sort of Levinas before the fact, minus his (occasionally tiresome) phenomenological baggage.

]]> By: Oli http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/#comment-406 Oli Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:25:34 +0000 http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/#comment-406 affirmation as a selective action, a use of will...yes indeed. oh g-d Ian, I really need to track down this book of hers! I was shocked to find the NYPL's choices of hers so scarce. I really like what you said here: This notion of alignment is key. We do not have the ability to choose our calling. We do not have the capacity to understand the calling in its entirety. We do have the capacity to shape our reason in accordance with that calling so that we may engage with it more fully. oh yes. affirmation as a selective action, a use of will…yes indeed. oh g-d Ian, I really need to track down this book of hers! I was shocked to find the NYPL’s choices of hers so scarce.
I really like what you said here:
This notion of alignment is key. We do not have the ability to choose our calling. We do not have the capacity to understand the calling in its entirety. We do have the capacity to shape our reason in accordance with that calling so that we may engage with it more fully.

oh yes.

]]> By: Spiritual Seeking and Promiscuity | Hawk's Cry http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/#comment-404 Spiritual Seeking and Promiscuity | Hawk's Cry Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:07:47 +0000 http://lanternlight.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/weil-and-the-pagans/#comment-404 [...] over at Dreaming the Future Closer, wrote a great post relating the philosophical writings of Simone Weil to Paganism that helped me clear some of my thinking about this [...] [...] over at Dreaming the Future Closer, wrote a great post relating the philosophical writings of Simone Weil to Paganism that helped me clear some of my thinking about this [...]

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