Les Formes de l'amour implicite de Dieu: Premium Ebook

by Simone Weil

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"L'amour est le regard de l'âme"

Dans cette réflexion théologique rédigée en 1942, Simone Weil interroge le premier commandement et invite chacun de nous, avant qu'il ne fasse une réelle rencontre avec Dieu, à reporter cet amour sur les objets dans lesquels il réside, l'amour implicite de Dieu pouvant se porter notamment sur la beauté du monde, les cérémonies religieuses et son prochain.

100 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 26, 2019

About the author

Simone Weil was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist. Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. Her brilliance, ascetic lifestyle, introversion, and eccentricity limited her ability to mix with others, but not to teach and participate in political movements of her time. She wrote extensively with both insight and breadth about political movements of which she was a part and later about spiritual mysticism. Weil biographer Gabriella Fiori writes that Weil was "a moral genius in the orbit of ethics, a genius of immense revolutionary range".

Reviews

[char · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t necessarily agree with everything that Weil says especially because a lot of her theory is firmly rooted in her Christian beliefs, but that does not take the applications of her views onto other religions or sects of philosophy. Her prose is so beautiful and genuinely amazing to read, she writes unlike any other theorist. I also really enjoy how open minded she is, her writing doesn’t only feature biblical stories; it features Greek myths, excerpts from the Bhagavad Ghita, Voltaire stories, and so much more. I really enjoyed her examination of beauty and art in this piece as well!