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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 Importance of Solidarity

Vay put herself in mortal peril at a solidarity, whether or not she was whatever her intention was. I have always thought of her as a kind of moral genius of the sort. We just don't see very often in this world. She embodies a standard that we require, but that we should not whip ourselves for failing to live up to because at the end of the day, Vay herself cannot live up to it.

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