I'm such a fan of Philosophize This! Not only that I've been supporting on Patreon for more than a year, but also that I listened systematically to all the 172 episodes. I'm not a professionnal philosopher, but you kick started me into reading many books on the topic. For your MAJOR impact in my life, please receive my most sincere gratitude. Merci. Merci. Merci beaucoup!
To describe the amount of enjoyment I get from this podcast would be beyond my vocabulary. Every time you update, it fills me with delight. You create such thought-provoking and entertaining content. Thank you.
4:42 I'm only that far into this but I'm so grateful that you do this. I just, I'm so grateful. I don't know anybody that's really into philosophy at all, but that doesn't stop me from talking at least one person's ear off about it. It's difficult for me though, because I'm not a student in the way that other people are students of philosophy. At all. That's one of the things I was just saying the other day; I love to explorer and experience the thoughts and ideas of others, play off of them like two crows in a game of tag, twisting in the wind when it shifts. But to imagine systematically using my time to understand every word of a philosopher and all of the history and all of the arguing... there just seems to be a lot of arrogance. Don't get me wrong I absolutely see the value in those things and I love history, but my passion doesn't have the structure of a brick wall, it's much more like some undefined thing, kind of like the window was mentioning with the crows. That's the kind of thing I can do, to understand the value of a difference in opinion and how much it's those fantastically clashing concepts that have the potential to birth some of the most unthinkably brilliant things, that shit takes a vulnerability and that is just something I don't see reflected in the values of too many philosophers. Like a lot of them seem that they just wanted to be right and remembered and it's kind of... It's a tricky thing because I can't really say much without becoming one of them but, I guess it's something for me to think more about if I can't find the value in it yet. I'm almost 35 and this is embarrassing to admit, I had never paid attention to philosophy enough to have any association with what it was and the way I've always experienced my thoughts. I think the vast majority of people on this planet don't understand that when you can hold something like that in your mind, when you experience that moment, it's artwork. It's literally the exact same incredible feeling of accomplishment and beauty and it sucks because you can show people a painting, you can play music for them that you've created, but when you have complex thoughts that people just don't want to hear, they can't see your art. It's lonely. The other day I was torturing my poor friend, saying that I wish there was some kind of philosophy club. But I wouldn't ever fit in there. I'm no alumni. Heck I didn't even graduate high school. I love the concepts, I love the living of them. I do that. I do and it drives me freaking bonkers that it means so little to this world. It's difficult for me to get myself to fully accept. The word disheartening does not begin to describe the kind of hurt I've been experiencing now that I understand that what I truly value in life, those things that are most precious to me, are vastly overshadowed in the minds of most people I walk by on the street, by their ideas of success being money and things and sex and YES that shit is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but, really? I thought that was just the way that bad guys in the movies thought about it all. I thought we all knew that we weren't really supposed to be like that. But I realize that I spent so much of my life- no- I have gladly exchanged so much energy in my life for moments that have highlighted my values and have made me glow and made other people glow. And I love that about me. But I look around and I realize I'm totally boned haha. And that kind of breaks my heart. Anyway. I always want to apologize for commenting. When I take my time to write and clean up my words, I appreciate it a lot more and others do as well. But when I have things to say that come passionately and quickly, I just turn on my microphone and rapid fire, and I forget most of my punctuation. It's probably awful to read. I know it is. But it seems like you guys are pretty smart so you could probably figure it
I imagine you as a person who doesn’t speak much and then feels embarrassed over gushing (what a word) about their passion whenever it comes up. That’s me. Something that is helpful: “When you’re talking so fast and I can see you get excited, it’s like your whole face shifts and your eyes and face start glowing, and it’s so beautiful! It’s surprising when you first start, but I just wish I could watch you talk forever! I don’t really know what you’re saying, but it feels important, and sometimes in life I’m in a situation and it comes to me, and I’m like ‘Hey! This is just like ___ said!’ Actually, just yesterday-“
Wonderful podcast and episode thank you. I’m sorry for your experience in the warehouse, but would like to offer another perspective. I had many Mc jobs in my life, and in my experience those were precisely the jobs where I got to think because the work I was doing was so menial that it took none of my brainpower. I admit it wasn’t in a 1940s factory and I understand the pace of that would have been different. I currently work as a group counsellor in a psychiatric hospital. The work is about as satisfying and meaningful as it could possibly be. Yet, the schedule, the unpaid overtime, the pressure to fit the case management in, the information systems, the extreme vulnerability and neediness of the clients (every single, one of whom I have nothing but deep affection for) the two hour commute, add up to a work experience, where I feel more afflicted than I ever did in any of my crappy jobs. There is also a long history of writers and artists who worked shitty jobs precisely to have the time to think. Again, maybe not at the pace of the car factory… Just a perspective.
Everything about this channel is such a joy: from the depth of research that must have gone into each episode, the work involved in translating these complex ideas into a language accessible to the rest of us, to the genuine passion in the delivery - even the mic technique and elocution are excellent! Thank you for this, I have learned a lot so far...
@philosophizethispodcast I love your podcast! It has brought me countless hours of listening joy. I wanted to request that you cover some Indian philosophers. Sankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva are three important philosophers from the Vedanta tradition in India, they had some fantastic ideas. It would be awesome to hear a series of episodes from you where you discuss these three. Thanks for putting out such amazing and high-quality work.
Hello! :) Wow, thank you for creating that podcast episode. I've been carring around this heavy feeling inside that there must be a deeper meaning of this life and something went really wrong living it. I always felt that society handles me like a bio-robot and does not help me to find my true nature. Moreover, it's like if they keep pushing me far away from my true design day by day. Thank you for helping me understand these feelings inside of me. I just got to know about Simone Weil. I bought a book written by her yesterday. I'm excited to find out more about her and her way of thinking.
I cannot listen this for the life of me, i have to read the transcript of the podcast to keep my attention. Idk why it doesn’t appeal, maybe I am used to the way people talk when they are talking to each other than hearing an audio lecture. I keep getting distracted and get lost. I do have adhd so its pry just me, but good stuff. Omg I just had to slow the play back speed to 0.75 and Geez what a relief. Sounds more appealing. Im dumb but i enjoy this content.
Thanks for this episode! I’ve had this question recently.. if attention can be said to have moral value, can ignorance have it as well? After all, in today’s world, many of us have to actively choose NOT to acquire knowledge on certain subjects, in order to be better people in the areas we’ve chosen to give our attention to.
Started to follow your podcast recently, and so far I've enjoyed it quite a lot, thank you for your time producing quality content. About this episode, one cannot agree with Weil's observations of factory work, if not ideologically, romantically charged. I've worked in more than 25 jobs throug my life, and I've worked in some factories too: 1) nobody in the line except for the supervisor knows the numbers one should produce daily/monthly - nor nobody cares. 2) it's difficult to speak about politics, and philosophy with your co-workers, because most Factory/line workers never read a book or care for class struggle. you see, most workers in a factory are not very intelligent or very educated, and thus although they speak a lot, and I was lucky to work with a lot of funny, kind, interesting carachters. But intelligent conversation, only with the casual student temporary working some shifts to get some extra pocket change. 3)The intellectual transformation regarding work Weil speaks about exists only in her own mind. For what I can understand, she goes to work to observe reality intellectualy , with the aim to understand the books she read and fantasised to, I think we can assume that Weil projected her need to convey results into what is simple reality: people work in factories for a living. There is no romantic outlook on the matter, people work , repeat what they are doing, and really don't care much about it, and then they'll buy their groceries and watch television some, to repeat next day. Intellectuals enjoy to romanticize reality, the truth is that most people do not care for anything more than what is in front of them, they don't have and don't care for having the intellectual ability to think beyond what are the simple mechanised values they absorbed in their small circle. 4) there exists no dehumanisation of the factory worker, in Europe: health and safety is placed in front of any production line. All materials and architecture are designed with safety measures , and most factories I've worked will enforce a necessary health and safety course regarding the work at hand. In Weil's time could be different,as we see in Indian and Chinese RUclips clips.
Hey Stephen. I am a long time listener of your podcast and everytime I listen to one of your episodes, I end up very interested and want to start reading up on the things you talked about do I can understand it better. I wanted to ask if it would be possible if you could create a small google doc or something for every episode, where you mention what books you have read as preparstion for creating the episodes and we can read those books/articles afterwards.
Why was she fighting for the side that put pots of boiling oil at ground level for people to fall into. Maybe the other side had bigger pots for people to fall into with spikes in the bottom. Definitely don’t like spikes in the bottom one doesn’t. Sorry didn’t know what I’m talking about. Great podcast thanks.
Thank you so much 🙏🏻 I learn a lot from your Channel I was wondering if it is possible that you would make a philosophy crash course for beginners, or something like an advice about where to start especially for beginners like me who would love to learn philosophy. 🌷😇🌷
Hi There is a RUclips channel called "crash course". They have a playlist about philosophy in which each video covers a specific topic in about 5 minutes. Maybe that could be interesting for you. I myself really enjoyed their videos.
Another suggestion is to pick a topic like political philosophy, find a really good instructor like Tamar Gendler on YaleCourses channel, and it will branch out in a natural direction for you while providing a solid way of seeing oneself in the world.
I would start exactly with this podcast! From the beginning. Stephen explains concepts with great accessibility, sprinkles in historical context, and uses contemporary references and humor to help the process
Is there a difference between meditation and attention/prayer? Attention seems to be attention when it is given to a thing, person, idea. This could be understood as meditating on a thing, person, idea. You don't furrow your brow and work really hard to find the answer to a question or understand something when you meditate. You sit there, wait in meditation for the answer to come to you, then it appears in your mind. To me, that's why Simone Weil isn't bothered when a kid doesn't find an answer to a math question or discover a math problem in that moment. They were paying attention, which is ultimately the way you get closer to both an answer and the God frequency. "Attention, taken to it's highest degree, is prayer". Is prayer paying attention to the ideal of love / God? Or does prayer mean not keeping any particular topic in mind and the frequency of God becomes apparent somehow? Either way, it seems similar to some Hindu thought regarding meditation and the "om tat sat" mantras. If anyone has insight on this, please let me know. Thank you
Not true that Simone Weil's brigade were wiped out after her departure due to the oil burn incident . The Thalmann battalion disbanded because of lack of resources and volunteers. Please check your sources.
I have done a LOT of Manuel labor. Some of it really sucked, some dangerous, but much of it was fine. Don’t have to go to the gym. Somebody has to do it. It’s not exploitation.
Wouldn't it be great if the manual labor was shared by all? Then everyone would have the chance to experience the freedom found in good hard use of the body that you are describing here yet at the same time people would not be singled out to carry the weight of the danger, monotony and depersonalization side of it alone.
I LOVE all the “I’m not saying do this” examples like the progressive teacher with the kangaroos😂 When thinking about ideas from really wise people like Weil, it’s easy to think you’ve got a hold on the real thing but then end up being just another asshole perverting the real thing
With the safety net of rich parents, a superlative education, free time to experiment life's options, and an "invisible" hand to pull us out of life's fires, yeah, I think we might all have a good shot at such an altruistic, fulfilling life (without the TB and WW2 nuisances, of course). Seriously though, certainly a most unusual person.
I must say this has to be some of the most banal, mind-numbingly stupid self-help style life advice I've ever heard from a nominally world famous, big-name philosopher. Please tell me there's more to Simone Weill than this tripe. Because I've definitely heard the name before, didn't know anything about her, and now I that I've gotten a taste of what she has to say, I'm terribly unimpressed. To the point that it's almost offensive it's so lame. I suppose she means well, but you gotta have more than that to offer. I could give better life advice than this off the top of my head, with zero philosophy training.
I'm such a fan of Philosophize This! Not only that I've been supporting on Patreon for more than a year, but also that I listened systematically to all the 172 episodes. I'm not a professionnal philosopher, but you kick started me into reading many books on the topic. For your MAJOR impact in my life, please receive my most sincere gratitude. Merci. Merci. Merci beaucoup!
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i love Philosophize This! too, this guy knows his stuff
لا إلاه إلا الله No God except Allah
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It’d be great to see more of mystical philosophers like Weil
Weil read a lot of St. John of the Cross. You also should try Pavel Florensky, a truly genius and saint.
To describe the amount of enjoyment I get from this podcast would be beyond my vocabulary. Every time you update, it fills me with delight. You create such thought-provoking and entertaining content. Thank you.
Best Philosophy channel on RUclips. And it's only audio.
I wish Simone's ideas were the key of school curriculum. Thankyou again for a fantastic episode 💚☮️
4:42 I'm only that far into this but I'm so grateful that you do this. I just, I'm so grateful. I don't know anybody that's really into philosophy at all, but that doesn't stop me from talking at least one person's ear off about it. It's difficult for me though, because I'm not a student in the way that other people are students of philosophy. At all. That's one of the things I was just saying the other day; I love to explorer and experience the thoughts and ideas of others, play off of them like two crows in a game of tag, twisting in the wind when it shifts. But to imagine systematically using my time to understand every word of a philosopher and all of the history and all of the arguing... there just seems to be a lot of arrogance. Don't get me wrong I absolutely see the value in those things and I love history, but my passion doesn't have the structure of a brick wall, it's much more like some undefined thing, kind of like the window was mentioning with the crows. That's the kind of thing I can do, to understand the value of a difference in opinion and how much it's those fantastically clashing concepts that have the potential to birth some of the most unthinkably brilliant things, that shit takes a vulnerability and that is just something I don't see reflected in the values of too many philosophers. Like a lot of them seem that they just wanted to be right and remembered and it's kind of... It's a tricky thing because I can't really say much without becoming one of them but, I guess it's something for me to think more about if I can't find the value in it yet.
I'm almost 35 and this is embarrassing to admit, I had never paid attention to philosophy enough to have any association with what it was and the way I've always experienced my thoughts. I think the vast majority of people on this planet don't understand that when you can hold something like that in your mind, when you experience that moment, it's artwork. It's literally the exact same incredible feeling of accomplishment and beauty and it sucks because you can show people a painting, you can play music for them that you've created, but when you have complex thoughts that people just don't want to hear, they can't see your art. It's lonely.
The other day I was torturing my poor friend, saying that I wish there was some kind of philosophy club. But I wouldn't ever fit in there. I'm no alumni. Heck I didn't even graduate high school.
I love the concepts, I love the living of them. I do that. I do and it drives me freaking bonkers that it means so little to this world. It's difficult for me to get myself to fully accept. The word disheartening does not begin to describe the kind of hurt I've been experiencing now that I understand that what I truly value in life, those things that are most precious to me, are vastly overshadowed in the minds of most people I walk by on the street, by their ideas of success being money and things and sex and YES that shit is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but, really? I thought that was just the way that bad guys in the movies thought about it all. I thought we all knew that we weren't really supposed to be like that. But I realize that I spent so much of my life- no- I have gladly exchanged so much energy in my life for moments that have highlighted my values and have made me glow and made other people glow. And I love that about me. But I look around and I realize I'm totally boned haha. And that kind of breaks my heart.
Anyway. I always want to apologize for commenting. When I take my time to write and clean up my words, I appreciate it a lot more and others do as well. But when I have things to say that come passionately and quickly, I just turn on my microphone and rapid fire, and I forget most of my punctuation. It's probably awful to read. I know it is. But it seems like you guys are pretty smart so you could probably figure it
I imagine you as a person who doesn’t speak much and then feels embarrassed over gushing (what a word) about their passion whenever it comes up. That’s me.
Something that is helpful: “When you’re talking so fast and I can see you get excited, it’s like your whole face shifts and your eyes and face start glowing, and it’s so beautiful! It’s surprising when you first start, but I just wish I could watch you talk forever! I don’t really know what you’re saying, but it feels important, and sometimes in life I’m in a situation and it comes to me, and I’m like ‘Hey! This is just like ___ said!’ Actually, just yesterday-“
You never disappoint. Listening from the Southern hemisphere during breakfast. Great way to start my weekend. Thank you!
Wonderful podcast and episode thank you. I’m sorry for your experience in the warehouse, but would like to offer another perspective. I had many Mc jobs in my life, and in my experience those were precisely the jobs where I got to think because the work I was doing was so menial that it took none of my brainpower. I admit it wasn’t in a 1940s factory and I understand the pace of that would have been different. I currently work as a group counsellor in a psychiatric hospital. The work is about as satisfying and meaningful as it could possibly be. Yet, the schedule, the unpaid overtime, the pressure to fit the case management in, the information systems, the extreme vulnerability and neediness of the clients (every single, one of whom I have nothing but deep affection for) the two hour commute, add up to a work experience, where I feel more afflicted than I ever did in any of my crappy jobs. There is also a long history of writers and artists who worked shitty jobs precisely to have the time to think. Again, maybe not at the pace of the car factory… Just a perspective.
Everything about this channel is such a joy: from the depth of research that must have gone into each episode, the work involved in translating these complex ideas into a language accessible to the rest of us, to the genuine passion in the delivery - even the mic technique and elocution are excellent!
Thank you for this, I have learned a lot so far...
Best podcast ever made!! Thank you
Love this episode and this philosopher. Very thought provoking.
When is part 2? Ive been waiting ages. This podcast is one of the few things i look forward to in life and helps me relax every evening.
@philosophizethispodcast I love your podcast! It has brought me countless hours of listening joy. I wanted to request that you cover some Indian philosophers. Sankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva are three important philosophers from the Vedanta tradition in India, they had some fantastic ideas. It would be awesome to hear a series of episodes from you where you discuss these three. Thanks for putting out such amazing and high-quality work.
Hello! :)
Wow, thank you for creating that podcast episode. I've been carring around this heavy feeling inside that there must be a deeper meaning of this life and something went really wrong living it.
I always felt that society handles me like a bio-robot and does not help me to find my true nature. Moreover, it's like if they keep pushing me far away from my true design day by day. Thank you for helping me understand these feelings inside of me. I just got to know about Simone Weil. I bought a book written by her yesterday. I'm excited to find out more about her and her way of thinking.
There are many women philosophers in so many different centuries. It's amazing that they are not discussed really never at least on RUclips.
Just to leave a footprint for one of the best philosophical thoughts out there!
You possibly changed my life!
Awesome. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the upload!
Atemporally important, but in our era this is a major issue! ( i´m referring Simone Weil, but also Philosophize This!!! ) Thank you Stephen West!
I cannot listen this for the life of me, i have to read the transcript of the podcast to keep my attention. Idk why it doesn’t appeal, maybe I am used to the way people talk when they are talking to each other than hearing an audio lecture. I keep getting distracted and get lost. I do have adhd so its pry just me, but good stuff. Omg I just had to slow the play back speed to 0.75 and Geez what a relief. Sounds more appealing. Im dumb but i enjoy this content.
Superb work.
Thanks for this episode! I’ve had this question recently.. if attention can be said to have moral value, can ignorance have it as well? After all, in today’s world, many of us have to actively choose NOT to acquire knowledge on certain subjects, in order to be better people in the areas we’ve chosen to give our attention to.
Started to follow your podcast recently, and so far I've enjoyed it quite a lot, thank you for your time producing quality content.
About this episode, one cannot agree with Weil's observations of factory work, if not ideologically, romantically charged.
I've worked in more than 25 jobs throug my life, and I've worked in some factories too:
1) nobody in the line except for the supervisor knows the numbers one should produce daily/monthly - nor nobody cares.
2) it's difficult to speak about politics, and philosophy with your co-workers, because most Factory/line workers never read a book or care for class struggle. you see, most workers in a factory are not very intelligent or very educated, and thus although they speak a lot, and I was lucky to work with a lot of funny, kind, interesting carachters.
But intelligent conversation, only with the casual student temporary working some shifts to get some extra pocket change.
3)The intellectual transformation regarding work Weil speaks about exists only in her own mind. For what I can understand, she goes to work to observe reality intellectualy , with the aim to understand the books she read and fantasised to, I think we can assume that Weil projected her need to convey results into what is simple reality: people work in factories for a living.
There is no romantic outlook on the matter, people work , repeat what they are doing, and really don't care much about it, and then they'll buy their groceries and watch television some, to repeat next day.
Intellectuals enjoy to romanticize reality, the truth is that most people do not care for anything more than what is in front of them, they don't have and don't care for having the intellectual ability to think beyond what are the simple mechanised values they absorbed in their small circle.
4) there exists no dehumanisation of the factory worker, in Europe: health and safety is placed in front of any production line. All materials and architecture are designed with safety measures , and most factories I've worked will enforce a necessary health and safety course regarding the work at hand.
In Weil's time could be different,as we see in Indian and Chinese RUclips clips.
Great episode... looking forward to this series!
This looks promising!
Such a great channel! I love it!! 😍
Hey Stephen. I am a long time listener of your podcast and everytime I listen to one of your episodes, I end up very interested and want to start reading up on the things you talked about do I can understand it better. I wanted to ask if it would be possible if you could create a small google doc or something for every episode, where you mention what books you have read as preparstion for creating the episodes and we can read those books/articles afterwards.
How much longer do I have to keep my eyes peeled for the next episode on Weil???
hi would love a video on stirner !
Why was she fighting for the side that put pots of boiling oil at ground level for people to fall into. Maybe the other side had bigger pots for people to fall into with spikes in the bottom. Definitely don’t like spikes in the bottom one doesn’t. Sorry didn’t know what I’m talking about. Great podcast thanks.
Great
Hey @Philosophize This; do you watch films ?
Thank you so much 🙏🏻
I learn a lot from your Channel
I was wondering if it is possible that you would make a philosophy crash course for beginners, or something like an advice about where to start especially for beginners like me who would love to learn philosophy.
🌷😇🌷
Hi
There is a RUclips channel called "crash course". They have a playlist about philosophy in which each video covers a specific topic in about 5 minutes. Maybe that could be interesting for you. I myself really enjoyed their videos.
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Thank you so much 😇🌷🙏🏻
Another suggestion is to pick a topic like political philosophy, find a really good instructor like Tamar Gendler on YaleCourses channel, and it will branch out in a natural direction for you while providing a solid way of seeing oneself in the world.
I would start exactly with this podcast! From the beginning. Stephen explains concepts with great accessibility, sprinkles in historical context, and uses contemporary references and humor to help the process
@@benkabore Yes, that's what Tamar Gendler does too, and it's very effective. Taking notes is something I should do more.
30:50 surely to some extent Simone Weil was giving her attention to this depressing dehumanization.
Hi. Im very curious who is your favorite philosopher....also your favorite lesson...thanks
It is Simone de Beauvoir, he says it in the first episode about Simone Weil and in a couple of ones about Beauvoir herself.
Is there a difference between meditation and attention/prayer?
Attention seems to be attention when it is given to a thing, person, idea. This could be understood as meditating on a thing, person, idea. You don't furrow your brow and work really hard to find the answer to a question or understand something when you meditate. You sit there, wait in meditation for the answer to come to you, then it appears in your mind. To me, that's why Simone Weil isn't bothered when a kid doesn't find an answer to a math question or discover a math problem in that moment. They were paying attention, which is ultimately the way you get closer to both an answer and the God frequency.
"Attention, taken to it's highest degree, is prayer". Is prayer paying attention to the ideal of love / God? Or does prayer mean not keeping any particular topic in mind and the frequency of God becomes apparent somehow?
Either way, it seems similar to some Hindu thought regarding meditation and the "om tat sat" mantras.
If anyone has insight on this, please let me know. Thank you
Not true that Simone Weil's brigade were wiped out after her departure due to the oil burn incident . The Thalmann battalion disbanded because of lack of resources and volunteers. Please check your sources.
I could tell that this was personal for Stephen.
I have done a LOT of Manuel labor. Some of it really sucked, some dangerous, but much of it was fine. Don’t have to go to the gym. Somebody has to do it. It’s not exploitation.
Wouldn't it be great if the manual labor was shared by all? Then everyone would have the chance to experience the freedom found in good hard use of the body that you are describing here yet at the same time people would not be singled out to carry the weight of the danger, monotony and depersonalization side of it alone.
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discord notification hahaha
Real philosophy is about asking: is this idea actually correct?
I LOVE all the “I’m not saying do this” examples like the progressive teacher with the kangaroos😂 When thinking about ideas from really wise people like Weil, it’s easy to think you’ve got a hold on the real thing but then end up being just another asshole perverting the real thing
Leo Frank had a fabulously fabricated story too. Critical thinking people, philosiphize that.
With the safety net of rich parents, a superlative education, free time to experiment life's options, and an "invisible" hand to pull us out of life's fires, yeah, I think we might all have a good shot at such an altruistic, fulfilling life (without the TB and WW2 nuisances, of course). Seriously though, certainly a most unusual person.
You forget the migraines...
She was physically awkward and seriously clumpsy. It is a miracle she worked in a factory.
I must say this has to be some of the most banal, mind-numbingly stupid self-help style life advice I've ever heard from a nominally world famous, big-name philosopher. Please tell me there's more to Simone Weill than this tripe. Because I've definitely heard the name before, didn't know anything about her, and now I that I've gotten a taste of what she has to say, I'm terribly unimpressed. To the point that it's almost offensive it's so lame. I suppose she means well, but you gotta have more than that to offer. I could give better life advice than this off the top of my head, with zero philosophy training.
Hello Stephen West, I've sent you an email, could you please take a look?
It seems she figured out how dopamine engages with our nervous system indirectly, and just turned it into a Philosophy lol. Ahead of her time indeed.
Well, there's a lot more to it than that, obviously, but yeah