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History of Ideas: Simone Weil

Past Present Future

CHAPTER

The Importance of Rights

To be a person creates the possibility of becoming a non-person. If these qualities go together to make up a person and we can disaggregate those qualities, we can take away the things that make people a person," he says. "We lose control of who we are by thinking that we are uniquely who we are" 'Nothing is safe in the world of persons because nothing is sacrosanct,' Vile writes.

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