

JUST FYI POD: IDEAS: "Our Ten Favorite Works of Philosophy: #4"
10 snips Apr 21, 2025
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Texas Reality Meets Landman Fiction
- Landman portrays Texas stereotypes in a hyperbolic yet somewhat accurate way.
- Clark recounts an unusual experience of encountering a horse on a city bike trail in Texas.
Simone Weil's Rooted Activism
- Simone Weil combined intellectual genius with deep empathy from a young age.
- She rejected abstract politics, choosing to live and work alongside the oppressed.
Weil's Spiritual Transformation
- Weil's mystical experience deepened her Christian spiritual focus.
- This shifted her politics from Marxism to socially conscious Catholicism.