Simone Weil Her Life and Philosophy

yeah all right so tonight final lecture simone vile a philosopher she was very much influential immediate in the immediate post-war era and and people like TS Eliot very much interested in and responded to her thought I thought she would be a good person to end on perhaps slightly less known but would be much better known in France and England not as well known in America although she has had considerable influence here particularly in Catholic circles Jesuit circles also because I think you know there are female philosophers they never get much play so I thought she would be another good female philosopher to go with along the Simone de Beauvoir who with whom she did not get along they did not like each other if you read her little biography Simone de Beauvoir took second to Sartre that basically her university exams and second to Simone violin her firm entrance exams which is that's rock competition she should have gotten her first time at least one of those but so a very bright woman all right so Simone vial 1909 1943 anybody familiar with the history of those years will recognize a trying time to be born and to grow up and to live perhaps all times are trying but really that is a particularly trying time to be alive but generally called the interregnum the space between the two bores which are now being increasingly considered to be one war and I think that's a much more accurate views that World War one started in you know 1914 and in 1947 probably a more accurate conception of what what happened in movies 45 something was going on till 20 said but we'll call it 45 Oh China China was still going China was going on till much later anyway I'll check so first it's important to understand that time period so when she was a child at one point she went on a kind of hundred hunger strike because of the troops who were suffering at the front on limited rations very early on she had this notion of shared suffering we'll return to that many times this evening as she grew out you have that you know the communist revolution you know the end of World War one you have all the social unrest in all of Europe because of the depression that followed ...