Ep. 251: Simone Weil's Ideal Society
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Utopian Utopie of False Manual Labor?
In her new book, "The Spirit of Work," Simone de Beauvoir writes about the value of manual labor. She says it should be considered as a human value that we're embracing. But when she goes this direction, there's an unresolved tension between free action and forced submission to necessity,. De Beauvoir: The negative seeming like the rejection of freedom is disappointing.
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