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[@Stallagmite]

"the universe discloses more about itself to those who are daring enough to not stay at a safe distance" love that statement

[@semihgencalioglu3720]

To express how I feel when a new episode comes out, I will use only one word: Yay!

[@kantimmanuel4397]

Ben dinliyorum ama anlamakta zorlanıyorum

[@noahbrown4388]

@Kant Immanuel Yeah.. what he said!

[@kantimmanuel4397]

@@noahbrown4388 ahah thank you Noah. I mean podcast not the comment of turkish guy

[@porco_renascentista]

Sooooo good! I'm from Brasil and I study Simone Weil and wrote a master phil about attention. This interpretation is so good, thaks for this.

[@RoyAlexander214]

Made my day when I got a notification a video had been uploaded. Thanks 🙏

[@benjueabba9480]

Thank you Steven West, hope you're well !

[@drradska8107]

Thank you! Such a treat to listen to a good narration of a complicated topic.

[@stellalanyi2352]

Thank u for introducing me to Simone weil, she is truly inspiring ❤ love your podcasts a lot

[@piotrpiotr8630]

Thanks for the last 2 fabulous episodes. Please I'm looking forward to hearing about Georges Bataille!

[@catfein9827]

Simone and Voltariene are my two favorite anarchists! This is the fucking best podcast and I thank you greatly for existing. I’ve just found your channel and I’m binge listening through sickness. Thanks so so so much.

[@tchedoumenou1165]

Thanks for making this podcast! and making us think deeper about our lifes :)

[@evedotcom]

I am enjoying this series on Simone so much! I‘ve felt drawn to Simone for the last couple of years, but have yet to actually read anything beyond snippets here and there, and analysis online. I guess I’ve been a bit intimidated and also struggling to read consistently 🙃 This is a really enjoyable intro and overview before I finally dive in. Very much looking forward to the next 🙏

[@sthetatos]

"Waiting on God" is a good book to start.

[@arieanvandegroep]

I salute you, sir. Very much on the point.

[@zaranm4827]

I love your work, it makes me really happy and my life better. Thank you ❤

[@tortera]

Thank you so much again and again. You make my life much better.

[@melissasmind2846]

That was powerful!

[@euphoricbabe2914]

Love these podcasts so much

[@martinmarchef8303]

Absolutely tremendous realization! So simple and beautiful its a riddle how we are not seeing it as the ultimate pure reality.

[@melissasmind2846]

Weiqi. If a game. Those that win deserve to win. A beautiful mind 🐝

[@caleydrake6805]

I’m currently reading the book “zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance” based on your recommendation from a previous episode. I would love to hear you discuss it in an upcoming episode to learn your opinions/interpretations!

[@thomasbeaumont3668]

14:00 they were still doing that at the time of WW2 and up until the late 1950s

[@Whycast]

This guy is good

[@johnbizzlehart2669]

Human Rights in relation to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs…relative positioning on the perceived needs level of the Other.

[@melissasmind2846]

Helpful

[@bhavdeepmakwana6512]

How can I subscribe the e-mail notifications? ¿

[@daresh5064]

i find that impossible, how not to bring anything personal, the language itself is a huge part of that how one can manage to be an empty mind, let alone my overthinking problem, ive tried meditation, and its impossible just stop thinking

[@sunwukong6917]

It's not only us as individuals who happen to make a decision to objectify the other . Is the system who promotes social relations based solely on material exchange . Marx mentioned this way back how capitalism destroys all bonds and leaves nothing but cold hard business relations for people to engage in. So the individual change is not enough but the system needs to change too and is more necessary for the system to change for any change to be lasting and meaningful.

[@melissasmind2846]

❤

[@andrewbowen2837]

Her idea (decreation) sounds a lot like Rawls's veil of ignorance. However, I don't think it's possible to remove an individual from the community and background from which they've been embedded that forms their identity, their ego, because those very things are what makes them moral agents. Not to mention, it would uproot them in a way, which is one thing she would seem to be against, as you discuss in the beginning.

[@hevalemin6520]

I love Simone Weil, but she clearly had a lifelong eating disorder and it killed her eventually. That's not what made her a brilliant philosopher. It's probably connected to the parts of her personality that took on experiences that gave her insight into workers' reality. But she didn't die from going to Spain or the Peugeot factory. She died of excessive self-denial, a habit that pre-dated her ideology and her philosophy. Hemingway wasn't a great writer *because* of his alcoholism, and Weil wasn't a great philosopher *because* of her eating disorder.

[@CadyAnBlack]

Please stop reducing people's natural spiritual inclinations to psychological disorders. It's atheistic, condescending, and tediously boring.

[@peterkim4568]

If your definition of an eating disorder is some condition that causes you to limit your food intake to a degree that is physically unhealthy for you, then I guess you could say that she had one. But I think it's important to point out that I think it's pretty likely the reason that she ate so little/the way she did wasn't out of some toxic or unhealthy relationship with food. It was more out of her conviction that she needed to identify with the struggles of soldiers fighting in the trenches and people suffering from deprivation, and this was one of the ways she identified as a means of doing so. In a way, it's not too far removed from the traditions of fasting that already exist in a lot of major religions. I think that alone is qualitatively different from most eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, which is driven by a distorted view of oneself as overweight and therefore unattractive, because Weil wasn't just avoiding food because she feared it would taint her or make her unholy in some way. Rather, she wanted to really know what it was like to be hungry because so many people in the world suffered from hunger and lack, and she couldn't bear the thought of not being able to understand them and their pain.

[@CadyAnBlack]

@hevalemin6520 Weil's instinct to willingly suffer, in solidarity with those who must UNwillingly suffer, is the very spirit of christ. Are you truly so horrified by the central ethos of the gospel?

[@Diathon1]

@@CadyAnBlackTo choose to suffer with those who don’t know they’re choosing to suffer, and in doing so, being the way out.

[@CadyAnBlack]

@Diathon1 Not all suffering is the wages of sin. Sometimes kids just get cancer. We suffer in solidarity with everyone, because suffering for others is how we grow our hearts. You will never be their way out. It's just the opposite. They, in needing you to suffer with them, become the source of your expanding capacity to draw closer to Christ.

[@L.Kujari]

Unlike most academics of their time, Marx and Engels did spend a lot of time in factories with actual workers, so they were quite well familiar with the real daily lives of the workers although not being factory workers themselves

[@BrentSchmurda]

Yeah Engel owned the factory 😭

[@L.Kujari]

@@BrentSchmurda Yea his family owned factories

[@BrentSchmurda]

@@L.Kujari yes so it's exactly like Stephen said, so he was wealthy and could never truly understand the true struggle of a worker.

[@L.Kujari]

@@BrentSchmurda Not completely of course, all I meant was that the methods of M & E were very different from and much more authentic than those of the average bourgeoisie writer

[@sunwukong6917]

Can't believe you said Marx didn't know what it was like to be a worker . Marx was politically persecuted and thus unable to find a steady job due to it , although he wrote here and there articles for newspapers , but he work tirelessly and I know you know this , and he lived in true need ,the money send by Engels not being enough to maintain a family in proper conditions . He truly lived in squalor . Simone Weiss working class vacations mean nothing much because the economical need wasn't there ,she held a job like a rich person goes to try life in the country side and see the "simple" folk . Marx actually gave his life for the working class . Not out of any desire for fame or money's hich he could have gotten easily had his political beliefs been different . Since he was a person of the highest Intellect. Marx wasn't over concerned with personal stories of misery , but in a scientific approach to the problems of capitalism . I've been sitting through this and I can't help but see that Simone Weiss basically watered down Marxism into a pseudo religious feeling of piety ... Marx actually did the work and proved it with data, constantly advancing the workers cause , which is way harder than shedding tears and getting a job . Simone Weiss is just taking all the class struggle and history out of Marxism and boiling it down to a self sacrificial christian sentiment ....

[@AlT-th4hw]

She wrote enough despite her age

[@cortneybitsoi4977]

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[@shehryarcollections4416]

In last episode you said next episode will come sooner than you think, but it was so late. Please don’t do this 😞

[@coritellastory]

"God doesn't talk to me" you are too corrupted and invaded thinking its English you're looking for....smh

[@sunwukong6917]

There is nothing abstract in Marxism is actually direct and materialist based .based in history and observation of class struggle in real social conditions . Simone Weiss spirituality replacing real social revolution is the most bourgeois twist ever. It serves no purpose but to maintain the status quo . That's why is so appealing to people who benefit from imperialism and capitalism because it allows them to feel good in a horrible exploitative world .

[@christinemartin63]

This Messianic "Mother Teresa" approach does not seem practical. If everyone took care of themselves first (basics, education, job, etc.), then their immediate family members, then their needy friends, and then their local community--in that order--I'd venture to say much of the world's poverty would be reduced. I'd also guess that Weil's grandiose gestures were probably not practiced in her local community, where, I imagine, WW2 conditions were hurting many locals. No ... the most "altruistic" often display the largest egos.

[@evedotcom]

I don’t believe she expected everyone to follow the same path as her. Just because it’s impractical for others, does not diminish its value and significance. And I think you’re jumping to conclusions there thinking these are grandiose large ego acts. How do you figure this? How are you discerning where these incredible altruistic acts are coming from?

[@andrewbowen2837]

@@evedotcom Hannah Arendt has made the case that the only way an act can truly be good is if someone is unaware that they're doing an act of good. Otherwise, they will always receive some benefit from it that does influence the ego

[@rainiealunan2932]

@@andrewbowen2837 would you give specific examples of this "truly" acts of good? are there really any acts of good that is not done for the ego?

[@andrewbowen2837]

@@rainiealunan2932 it would have to be something done in accident, or in ignorance. Helping others without being aware of it.

[@ShadowSis]

​@@andrewbowen2837that's not an action, that's an event. Actions are always intentional. I for one do not see why a boost for the ego would undo the good that was intended. It could be corruptive, but it doesn't have to be if one remains aware.