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Positive morality rests on a foundation of faith. What is the nature of that faith, and what are its logical consequences? Simone Weil (1909-1943) was one of the most brilliant French thinkers in an era marked by philosophical brilliance. She tried to combine philosophical perspective with a life of action, working in a factory and fighting in the Spanish Civil War in addition to pursuing her studies. After her experience in Spain, Weil split with the Marxists and began studying ancient religion, poetry and philosophy. The Iliad, or The Poem of Force stands out as her most noted essay.
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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".
