ASTONISHMENT AND DIRECTED TIME IN SIMONE WEIL’S YOUTH WRITINGS
In this article we analyze the attempt that young SimoneWeil made for thinking time and change, and for deciphering the participationthat the world and the mind may have in its configuration. To achieve this, weset out to elucidate two concepts that we believe synthesize her approach: thefirst one i...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repository: | Kriterion (Online) |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/42071 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/kriterion/article/view/42071 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Simone Weil; astonishment; directed time; change; mediation Simone Weil Asombro Tiempo dirigido Cambio Mediación |
| Summary: | In this article we analyze the attempt that young SimoneWeil made for thinking time and change, and for deciphering the participationthat the world and the mind may have in its configuration. To achieve this, weset out to elucidate two concepts that we believe synthesize her approach: thefirst one is astonishment, understood both in its quality of incessant intuitionthat reveals the human impotence to understand the present, and in its qualityas a mediating instance between ignorance and approximate human science ofthe phenomenal field. The second concept we analyze is that of directed time,significant of the first Weilian philosophy in that it reveals the subjugation ofman to the present, the only tangible time. This determination allows us tounderstand the meaning of the past as an abolished existence, and the futureas a virtual nucleus of possibilities towards which the human being prepareshis action and work thanks to his faculty to devise projects. Finally, we try toshow the problematic tension that young Weil discerned between the law of theimmediacy of the world, and the law of time that imposes intermediate steps tothe realization of all human activity. |
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