Human. Personality
By Simone Weil
1943
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"There is something sacred in every man, but it is not his person. Nor yet is it the human personality. ...what is sacred in a human being is the impersonal in him." ___ This essay, one of Simone Weil’s most powerful and beautiful was written during the last year of her brief life, in the late winter and early spring of 1942-3. The title on the manuscript reads “Collectivity. Person. Impersonal. Right. Justice.” She had recently arrived in England from New York where she had finally left her parents after their flight from Vichy France. This essay appeared in La Table Ronde (December 1950) with the title “La Personnalite humaine, le juste et l’injuste” and in Ecrits de Londres with the title “La Personne et le sacré” [R. Rees].
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Simone Weil
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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".
