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- Jan 24, 2021
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Simone Weil
I don't think we would agree on much, but I really admire her spirit. Albert Camus said she was "the only great spirit of our time". When we have all moved on from the sacred in favor of the mundane and have become cynical, Simone Weil championed ideals. She died at a tragically young age. I think if she had put more thought into it, she would have tried harder to live. Definitely ahead of her time and died too young. I wonder what would have happened to French philosophy if she had lived.
Jeanne D'Arc: another famous French woman who died young. She may have been crazy, but it takes real guts to do what she did. I have admired her since I was a young girl.
It's really odd that I as an atheist would choose two very religious figures, but here we are. I guess I respect what they were striving toward even if I too belong to the mundane and cynical modern world.
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I don't think we would agree on much, but I really admire her spirit. Albert Camus said she was "the only great spirit of our time". When we have all moved on from the sacred in favor of the mundane and have become cynical, Simone Weil championed ideals. She died at a tragically young age. I think if she had put more thought into it, she would have tried harder to live. Definitely ahead of her time and died too young. I wonder what would have happened to French philosophy if she had lived.
Jeanne D'Arc: another famous French woman who died young. She may have been crazy, but it takes real guts to do what she did. I have admired her since I was a young girl.
It's really odd that I as an atheist would choose two very religious figures, but here we are. I guess I respect what they were striving toward even if I too belong to the mundane and cynical modern world.