Review article

https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.54.4.2

The Range of Mutual Suffering in Simon Weil

Ante Vučković orcid.org/0000-0002-5049-2934 ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split, Split, Croatia
Lidija Piskač ; Verbum, Split, Croatia

Abstract

Compassion is at the heart of religious, spiritual and ethical traditions and invites us to treat others as we would like others to treat ourselves.We call this the golden rule. There are people who embody the principle of compassion in a peculiar and unique way in their life. Such was Simone Weil. This paper explores the places where she experiences mutual suffering in her life: clothing, another person's hunger, money, extradition of workers to the mechanisms of oppression. It then focuses on three periods of thought in the life of Simone Weil: Marxism and materialism, Christianity and spirituality, and opinions on a just society. Throughout her time, S. Weil is extremely strongly marked by mutual suffering. The paper intends to show the places where mutual suffering pervades Simone Weil's life and opinion.

Keywords

mutual suffering; hunger; oppression; labour; Communism; attention; Christianity

Hrčak ID:

230499

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/230499

Publication date:

19.12.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

Visits: 2.231 *