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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Simone Weil’s radical philosophy of love and attention

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Blindness of Simone Wie

The great human era is to reason in place of finding out, says Simone Vay. We give ourselves over to one ideology or another and then whatever intelligence we have ends up being devoted to reinforcing the ideology. Once you become a partisan, you stop thinking, you stop paying attention and you become a member of a tribe, a team. And so long as that's where you are, you're not going to see someone for who they are.

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