Simone Weil

Also known as Simone Adolphine Weil

filosofa e mistica francese (1909-1943)

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Simone Weil was a French philosopher and writer who lived during the early 20th century and engaged with questions about social justice, spirituality, and human suffering. Her work matters because she developed influential ideas about labor, faith, and morality that continue to shape philosophical and theological thought today.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 3 February 1909
Died: 24 August 1943
Works: 134

Top works

Simone Weil
Pensamientos desordenados acerca del amor a Dios
האם אנו נאבקים למען הצדק?
L'enracinement
نامه به ىک کشىش

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Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: France
Active from: 1909-02-03
Active to: 1943-08-24

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Listeners: 44
Total plays: 291

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,303x
A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
· 1992 · cited 7,891x
Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution
· 2009 · cited 7,641x
Ferroptosis: A Regulated Cell Death Nexus Linking Metabolism, Redox Biology, and Disease
· 2017 · cited 6,833x
Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,796x

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Quotes

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
“The prospects of revolution seem therefore quite restricted. For can a revolution avoid war? It is, however, on this feeble chance that we must stake everything or abandon all hope. An advanced country will not encounter, in the case of revolution, the difficulties which in backward Russia served as a base for the barbarous regime of Stalin. But a war of any scope will give rise to others as formidable.”
“I have sometimes told myself that if only there were a notice on church doors forbidding entry to anyone with an income above a certain figure, and a low one, I would be converted at once.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science. And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.”
“La culture est un instrument manié par des professeurs pour fabriquer des professeurs qui à leur tour fabriqueront des professeurs.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Simone
Family name: Weil
Gender: female
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Paris
Place of death: Ashford
Sibling: André Weil
Occupation: translator
Educated at: Lycée Fénelon, Paris
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Religion: nondenominational Christianity
Field of work: poetry
Conflict: Spanish Civil War
Military branch: International Brigades
Image: Simone Weil 1943.jpg

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manner of death: natural causes
Commons category: Simone Weil
date of death: 1943-08-24
date of birth: 1909-02-03
medical condition: tuberculosis
name in native language: Simone Weil
cause of death: tuberculosis
different from: Simone Veil
lifestyle: mysticism
member of: Q1125638
end of work period: 1943-08-24
Commons Creator page: Simone Weil
writing language: French
pseudonym: S. Galois
P8168: Ophiacantha metallacta
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
P12749: Kurt Huber

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Article · Italiano

Simone Adolphine Weil (Parigi, 3 febbraio 1909 – Ashford, 24 agosto 1943) è stata una filosofa, mistica e scrittrice francese, la cui fama è legata, oltre che alla vasta produzione saggistico-letteraria, alle drammatiche vicende esistenziali che ella attraversò, dalla scelta di lasciare l'insegnamento per sperimentare la condizione operaia, fino all'impegno come attivista partigiana, nonostante i persistenti problemi di salute. Sorella del matematico André Weil, fu vicina al pensiero anarchico e all'eterodossia marxista. Ebbe un contatto diretto, sebbene conflittuale, con Lev Trockij, e fu in rapporto con varie figure di rilievo della cultura francese dell'epoca. Nel corso del tempo, legò sé stessa all'esperienza della sequela cristiana, pur nel volontario distacco dalle forme istituzionali della religione, per fedeltà alla propria vocazione morale di presenziare fra gli esclusi. La strenua accettazione della sventura, tema centrale della sua riflessione matura, ebbe a essere, di pari passo con l'attivismo politico e sociale, una costante delle sue scelte di vita, mosse da una vivace dedizione solidaristica, spinta fino al sacrificio di sé. La sua complessa figura, accostata in seguito a quelle dei santi, è divenuta celebre anche grazie allo zelo editoriale di Albert Camus, che dopo la morte di lei a soli 34 anni, ne ha divulgato e promosso le opere, i cui argomenti spaziano dall'etica alla filosofia politica, dalla metafisica all'estetica, comprendendo alcuni testi poetici.

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