Podcasts about Simone Weil

As we pass Arnaut Daniel, the last penitent soul of Mount Purgatory, let's look back over the discussions of poetry and lust in the seventh (and even sixth) terrace of the mountain.Dante has laid out a fairly straightforward theory of poetry through his encounters with three poets. Are these in a logical progression? Are they causally linked, not just sequentially?Join me, Mark Scarbrough, for some final thoughts (at least for now) about poetry, lust, and how we humans make meaning.If you'd like to support this work, please consider donating through this PayPal link right here.Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:50] A progression of poets: Forese Donati, Bonagiunta Orbicciani, and Guido Guinizzelli.[07:20] Francesca was indeed an ambivalent figure in INFERNO--but not now, when we read through the gravitational lensing of COMEDY.[12:56] Simone Weil claims that the hope of religion (or for her, Christianity) is to turn violence into suffering, which can then be interpreted.

En este entrega de #Cartagrafías Laura Piñero nos habla de la vida de Simone Weil que además de filósofa, fue activista a favor de los derechos de los trabajadores, combatió en la Guerra Civil española, perteneció a la resistencia francesa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y tuvo una vida apasionante que podemos reconstruir a través de cartas.

Strach nás spojuje víc než rozum či řeč, říká Judith Shklarová. Dokud žijeme, obáváme se ublížení – tělesného, duševního i duchovního. Na tomto prostém vhledu staví svůj „liberalismus strachu“. Esej stejného jména vyšel roku 1989, v době, kdy Francis Fukuyama oznamoval „konec dějin“.Shklarová odmítá politický romantismus i spásné příběhy. Liberalismus podle ní nevyrůstá ze vznešených ideálů ani ze svobodného trhu, ale z potřeby chránit lidi před fanatismem a krutostí. Je to zřízení, v němž se lze svobodně rozhodovat beze strachu – a minimem, bez něhož svoboda nemůže existovat, je schopnost státu zabránit krutosti. Úkolem státu proto není uskutečnit summum bonum, nejvyšší dobro, ale bránit summum malum, nejvyššímu zlu.I proto je Shklarová „fenomenoložkou negativity“. Jak sama připomíná, často nevíme, kým chceme být, natož co je nejvyšší dobro. Zato víme, kým být nechceme, čeho se na sobě samých bojíme a čemu se chceme vyhnout – jako jednotlivci i jako společnost. Ctnostné jednání začíná často ne tím, že přesně víme, co udělat, ale tím, že si přiznáme, že tady „něco nehraje“.Ve své knize Obyčejné neřesti (jediné dostupné česky, v překladu Daniely a Karla Theinových) pojmenovává Shklarová krutost, pokrytectví, snobství, zradu a misantropii jako hlavní praskliny, jimiž do demokracie proniká strach. A přece: neřesti nemáme jen nenávidět. S výjimkou krutosti v sobě leckdy nesou i zrno dobra. Pokrytectví je zavrženíhodné, ale tam, kde jsou vysoké nároky, je přítomné nevyhnutelně – a jen cynik si může dovolit tvářit se, že se ho netýká. Ale cynik je krutosti blíže než pokrytec.Problémem není sama existence neřestí, ale to, že nás otupují a tím nás činí náchylnějšími k jediné absolutně zavrženíhodné neřesti, jíž je krutost. Politika svobody proto nezačíná vymýcením neřestí, nýbrž rozhodnutím být vnímavější vůči každodenní krutosti. Vůči té jsme ostatně zranitelní všichni – jako její oběti i jako její původci. Zkrátka: máme se čeho bát – a to je to jediné, co nás spojuje.KapitolyI. „Bolest nesmíme nechat přenechat biologům“ [začátek až 25:40]II. Judith Shklarová? Fenomenoložka negativity [25:40 až 47:25]III. Politická filozofie musí začít od krutosti [47:25 až 58:00]IV. Pozor na nenávist neřestí [58:00 až konec]BibliografieHannes Bajohr, „Am Leben zu sein heißt Furcht zu haben“, in: Judith Shklar, Liberalismus der Furcht, Berlin: Matthes Seitz, 2013, str. 131–167.Hannes Bajohr – Rieke Trimçev, ad Judith Shklar. Leben – Werk – Gegenwart, Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 2024.Judith N. Shklar, The Liberalism of Fear, in: Nancy L. Rosenblum (vyd.), Liberalism and the Moral Life, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.Judith Shklar, Obyčejné neřesti, přel. Karel Thein – Daniela Theinová, Praha: Karolinum, 2023.Simone Weil, La personne et le sacré, Paris: Payot, 2017.Bernard Williams, „The Liberalism of Fear“, G. Hawthorn (vyd.), In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument, Princeton: Princeton University, Press, 2005, str. 52–61.

Kyskhet är något mycket mer än sexuell avhållsamhet. Wera von Essen lyfter en underskattad dygd. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Jag återkommer ofta till en jesuitpaters ord om kyskhet. Han sa: ”kyskhet är att bevara den andres hemlighet”.Men vad innebär det egentligen? Talar vi om sexuell avhållsamhet, celibat, eller talar vi om hur man behandlar andra människor rent generellt?För man kan vara sexuellt avhållsam, men okysk, precis som man kan vara sexuellt aktiv, och kysk. Celibatet utgör ingen garant för kyskhet, man kan kränka en persons integritet på andra sätt, eller ännu värre: använda celibatet som en sorts täckmantel för att begå sexuella övergrepp, en förödelse vi tvingats bevittna i katolska kyrkan de senaste decennierna.Detta är en fråga som den norske katolske biskopen Erik Varden inte duckar för i sin bok Homo Castus (2025), en långessä om kyskhet. En teologisk och idéhistorisk genomgång som ibland innebär en ganska komplicerad och modig brottningsmatch med de tyngre aspekterna av denna dygd.Att träda in i en andlig gemenskap är att ganska snabbt upptäcka att den renhet man sökte kräver en daglig kamp och stort tålamod med sina egna och andras brister. Människan förblir nämligen mänsklig, och utan att ursäkta de brott som begåtts måste man någonstans förlika sig med att livet och tron är något olösligt, ja, ibland närmast förnuftsvidrigt.Redan de gamla Psaltarpsalmerna gestaltar verkliga brott, krig och våld, ändå, eller just därför, sjungs de i kyrkor runt om i hela världen, som en vacker påminnelse om vårt eget potentiella fall, och om nåden som räddar.Bibeln består främst av människor som förvandlas snarare än att vara fullkomliga.Centrala gestalter som den samariska kvinnan, Paulus, Maria Magdalena med flera, erfor verkliga omvändelser tack vare sina erfarenheter. Och den förlorade sonen, som varit minst sagt okysk, som levt i sus och dus, välkomnas med öppna armar av fadern när han återvänder hem. Den dygdige och återhållsamme brodern upplever detta som djupt orättvist, han blir, som så ofta är fallet i Bibeln, svartsjuk och avundsjuk.Detta för tankarna till den katolska läran om pro existens – livsbejakandet, som ju också kan inneha en erotisk dimension. Liv må vara något oförutsägbart, ibland kaotiskt i sin intensitet, och impulsen att kväsa det ligger därmed nära till hands. På så vis slipper man ju göra fel. ”Låt inte ditt liv bli sterilt”, hade en munk sagt till Varden när denne gick in i trappistkloster i Norge. För kyskheten är inte steril, tvärtom, den innebär snarare att begär och passion riktas och tas till vara.Och det är svårt att vara ödmjuk om man inte själv kämpat med sexualitetens krafter. Om man bara stryper dessa riskerar högmodet att ta över. ”Förtrogenhet med vår egen svaghet lär oss ha medlidande med andra”, skriver Erik Varden. Men han påminner också om att vissa destruktiva lidelser kan svältas ihjäl, det gäller att medvetandegöra dem och avvisa dem. Här menas inte bara lidelse av sexuell art, utan brister av alla de slag. Jag tror att det är viktigt att bekämpa sina brister, men bara med vetskapen om att man är älskad med dem. ”Var inte så hård mot dig själv”, skriver den brasilianska författaren Clarice Lispector till sin syster i ett brev. ”Man vet aldrig vilken brist som håller samman vår byggnad i sin helhet.”Den ungerske författaren Sandor Márai (1900-1989) beskriver i sina dagböcker, översatta av Ervin Rosenberg, vad han ser som en generell metafysisk skillnad mellan väst och öst – han observerar några buddhistiska munkar som han tycker vänder sig bort från världen och håller en solid distans till allt vad begär heter. Han jämför dem med Faust som inte kunde låta bli att sluta ett avtal med djävulen. Márai skriver: ”Han var åtminstone nyfiken”.Det är en smått provokativ och lekfull passage, men denna nyfikenhet har, kan man hävda, på många sätt och på gott och ont, format den judeo-kristna civilisationen. En så kallad upptäckarlust, ofta exploaterande, har varit närmast outtömlig och lika genial som rastlös.I den judiska mystiken, kabbalah, talar man mycket om förverkligandets natur genom de olika stadierna i Livets Träd. Människans begär och önskningar passerar från det inre till det yttre och blir till materia. Begäret ska inte alltså kväsas, utan förädlas. Detta genom självkännedom och genom att avlägsna de ytligare begären som står i vägen för de djupare. Att hänge sig åt kortlivad tillfredställelse hindrar oss både från att förstå vad vi egentligen begär, men blockerar också vägen för det djupare begärets materialisering.Ökenfäderna, kristendomens första eremiter som levde i den egyptiska öknen på 200-talet, trodde på det som stod i Bibeln på ett konkret sätt. De materialiserade tron genom sina egna liv. De hade inga så kallade andliga upplevelser eller någon spännande identitet kring dem. Den helige Antonius (f. 251) som beskrivs som den förste att bilda en liten klostergemenskap ute i öknen, uppfattade till exempel Kristi uppmaning att göra sig av med sina ägodelar och följa Honom på ett bokstavligt vis – han gjorde det helt enkelt bara. Det som senare kom att uppfattas som abstraktioner hade då en annan innebörd, det vill säga, distinktionen mellan metafor och materiell förankring var inte så stor som i det moderna samhället.Erik Varden nämner i Homo Castus agustinermunken Richard av Sankt Victor (f. 1110) vars devis Ubi amor, ibi oculus betyder: »Där kärlek är, där är ett öga som ser.« Liknande tankar om kärlek har de franska 1900-talsfilosoferna Simone Weil och Emanuel Lévinas, kärlek är odelad uppmärksamhet gentemot en annan människa, där dennas ansikte får framträda, istället för att låsas fast i definitioner.Att bevara någons hemlighet innebär att man tänker sig att varje människa har ett eget inre rum som bara är till för Gud. Det är bara Han som har hela bilden av den människans existens, vår kunskap om andra är ytterst begränsad.En kysk blick är således uppmärksam, men inte klåfingrig. En hållning som också går ut på att inte härleda saker och ting alltför mycket till individualitet, utan snarare odla dygder som grundats i den större Saken. Kvalitéer som trofasthet och respekt bygger enligt ett kyskt synsätt mer på löftet man gett till Gud, än på de temporära känslor man har gentemot andra människor. En sorts underkastelse om man så vill, där människan söker inlemmas i en tradition istället för att själv vara utgångspunkten och utgöra världens centrum. En hållning som kan appliceras på bildningstraditionen, eller på litteraturkritiken, där verkshöjden förblir viktigare än författaren som person.Ett symptom på klinisk depression är minskad initativförmåga, lust och glädje. I förlängningen betyder detta faktiskt minskat begär. Det mänskliga begäret är något friskt som gör oss kreativa. Det gäller bara att se till så att det blommar och bär frukt.Wera von Essen, författare och översättareLitteratur:Erik Varden Homo Castus, översättning Hillevi Norburg, Silentium skrifter 2025Clarice Lispector, Brev i urval, översättning Wera von Essen, Tranan 2020Sándor Márai, Dagbok 1984-1989, översättning Ervin Rosenberg, Tranan 2014

The Host [a] is a 2006 monster film[b] directed and co-written by Bong Joon Ho. It stars Song Kang-ho as food stand vendor Park Gang-du whose daughter Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung) is kidnapped by a creature dwelling around the Han River in Seoul. Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, and Bae Doona appear in supporting roles as Gang-du's father, brother, and sister, respectively, who help Gang-du escape quarantine against an alleged virus derived from the monster and search for his daughter. Considered a co-production between South Korea and Japan, the film was produced by independent studio Chungeorahm Film and presented by its South Korean distributor Showbox and the Japanese investor Happinet.Also discussed: Wes Anderson, Simone Weil, Kevin Smith, Mallrats, Allan Moyle, Pump Up the Volume (1990), Times Square (1980), Empire Records (1995), The Toxic Avenger (2025), IMAX and A24 ai ventures, and more.  NEXT WEEK: Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965),  Bloodhaus:https://www.bloodhauspod.com/https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/https://letterboxd.com/bloodhaus/Drusilla Adeline:https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/‪@sisterhyde.bsky.social Joshua Conkelhttps://www.joshuaconkel.com/https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/  

I bet you'd like to have an excuse to read some Aristotle, and Locke, Rousseau, Simone Weil, and other fun texts. Well, go read about this opportunity at partiallyexaminedlife.com/class, and then follow the link to enroll. Not sure? Watch a sample (a full seminar from last semester on Plato) of what such a class is really like.

8/8 portal Aquarius full moon pod with goated artist and filmmaker Martine Syms, director the excellent 2022 film African Desperate. On Anne Carson, Sappho, Simone Weil, Julian of Norwich, mysticism, and kicking it in Paris at the Nike conference. PART 2: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod Sean Thor Conroe wrote the novel Fuccboi.

durée : 00:59:08 - Avec philosophie - par : Géraldine Mosna-Savoye, Antoine Ravon - En 1970, Iris Murdoch publie "La souveraineté du Bien", ouvrage marqué par ses lectures de Platon, de Wittgenstein ou encore de Simone Weil. Comment la conception du Bien d'Iris Murdoch nous donne-t-elle les clés afin de nous rendre (moralement) meilleurs ? - réalisation : Nicolas Berger - invités : Emmanuel Halais Philosophe français

Zachary Ugolnik has for years been charting a new path that refuses the tired and inanimate narrative about the separateness of science and spirituality, reason and religion. In his life we find rich possibility when those old illusory dichotomies are discarded, and from that possibility perhaps new wisdom for creating a society full of care and flourishing, one that embraces our inherent needfulness and borrows from theology, ecology, and the social sciences. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:locate shared spaces of curiosity across disciplines (11:50)Émile Durkheim and collective effervescence (13:45)Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University (14:10 and 16:20)through lines between religion and social science (13:45)Victor and Edith Turner  communitas (15:00)Simone Weil decreation (18:30)re-membering (22:00)Zach's book: The Collective Self (18:30)Theater of War (24:00)Byzantine iconography and perspective (26:00)Picasso "Le Taureau" (26:20)The Social Science of Caregiving (27:30)Flourishing Knowledge Commons (27:45)Margaret Levi communities of fate (27:50)"Mobilizing in the Interest of Others" by Levi and Ugolnik (30:00)Buddhism and interdependence (31:50)Collective action problems (34:40)flourishing systems (37:30)Ilya Prigogine and dissipative structures (39:30)Danielle Allen (42:15)philanthropy (44:30)Strother School of Radical Attention (52:30)Andrei Rublev (52:50)Daniel Kahneman (53:50)Syriac term Iḥidāyā (55:00)Lightning Round (57:30):Book: The Way of the Pilgrimand The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo BashōPassion: travelHeart sing: swimming with my kidsScrewed up: eulogy Find Zach online:https://zacharyugolnik.com/Logo artwork by Cristina GonzalezMusic by swelo on all streaming platforms or @swelomusic on social media

In this episode, we connect with Simone Weil, the deeply spiritual French philosopher and activist known for her deliberate acts of compassion and her challenging exploration of suffering and de-creation as paths to the divine. Her experiences, born from a pre-birth intention to find enlightenment through pain, offer a unique perspective on affliction, ego dissolution, and encountering God as a personal presence.   And then, we shift to the expansive spirit of Walt Whitman, the iconic American poet, who saw spirituality in the 'scent of the real'—in the sweat, soil, body, and breath of the world. Whitman's essence is about embracing the wild, untrimmed poem of life and daring to be misunderstood.   He viewed his poetry as a channeled field of collective longing, a drumbeat from the soul of Earth itself. Though seemingly 'mismatched,' Weil and Whitman offer complementary insights, revealing themselves as opposite ends of the same vibrational frequency – exploring enlightenment through suffering and through joy, respectively.   Together, they deliver powerful messages on authenticity, releasing approval-seeking, and navigating a world in collapse. You'll hear Weil's profound question: "Am I offering me or am I auditioning for love?" and Whitman's liberating declaration: "Misunderstanding is not rejection. It's a space for mystery. Smile when it happens. You are becoming massive." They invite us to hold grief and joy simultaneously, to sing new stories into the cracks of collapsing foundations, and to radiate our authentic selves even in a 'loveless hour'.   To learn more about Christy Levy, click here. To book a 55-minute connect call with Gary, click here For more info about the new 7 Rays Activations program, please click here For retreat info, click here   

Sección Frases de gigantes del programa número 14 de La pregunta infinita: Identidad, autenticidad y la búsqueda de lo humano.

In this episode we delve into the lack of a sense of self that exists in Europe. While the European Union for decades has tried and failed (for, to us, obvious reasons) to provide an erzats-identity to the eroding national ones in (mostly) western Europe we look at the alternatives. While European elites have abandoned the project of building and caring for national identity and are trying to replace it with the more malleable “values” we look back to try and move forward.In this we provide four rather different takes on patriotism for the Europe of yore. One mystic and christian - while also strikingly french is provided by Simone Weil's The Need for Roots. This is contrasted by the materialistic yet quintessential spiritual Englishness of George Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn. The ultimate defence of the very hobbitness of all that is England. Then we move to the liberal-republican Swedish contrarian Vilhelm Moberg and his plea for remembering the generations of toil by the unknown and unheard commoner whose legacy is the history of a nation in Svensk Stävan. Last we move to that prussian anarch, Ernst Jünger and his On the Marble Cliffs where honour and defiance to tyrannical authority is the last knightly virtue as well as a patriotism all of its own. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sección Frases de gigantes programa 13: La luz del intelecto y el fuego del amor.

¿Es posible pensar con el corazón y amar con inteligencia? En este episodio exploramos la antigua tensión entre la claridad del pensamiento y la calidez del amor.A través de grandes reflexiones filosóficas de personajes como Blaise Pascal, Raimon Panikkar o Simone Weil, seguiremos descubriendo más sobre el ser humano. También traemos un cuento de sabiduría sobre el poder de la mente que viene directo desde el Himalaya.En la entrevista, el escritor y doctor en filosofía David Fernández Navas, nos habla sobre su último libro sobre uno de los místicos sufís más importantes de todos los tiempos, Ibn Arabi, y de su concepción del amor. En la interesante charla, entre otras cosas, descubriremos que la verdadera sabiduría no nace solo del conocimiento… sino del saber amar. SECCIONES DEL PROGRAMA NÚMERO 13 DE LA PREGUNTA INFINITA00:00 Introducción02:22 Frases de gigantes12:50 Reflexión maestra17:25 Cuentos de sabiduría23:15 Entrevista con David Fernández Navas por: Un Jardín entre llamas, Almuzara58:01 CierrePara saber más sobre mis proyectos: https://linktr.ee/tonyrhamPara escuchar mis meditaciones busca el canal: Meditaciones guiadas de Tony Rham.Sigue el programa, o compártelo, desde Spotify e Ivoox, o suscríbete en YouTube para que La Pregunta Infinita siga adelante.

Tres mujeres —Hildegarda de Bingen, Marguerite Porete y Simone Weil— reconfiguran el yo como armonía, transparencia y disponibilidad ante el Amor. Desde visiones cósmicas, espejos místicos y silencios éticos, sus voces trazan un itinerario espiritual donde el yo no se afirma, sino que se abre, se entrega y se transforma.

Ruben Endendijk in gesprek met Quinten Weeterings, aforist.--Steun DNW en word patroon op http://www.petjeaf.com/denieuwewereld.Liever direct overmaken? Maak dan uw gift over naar NL61 RABO 0357 5828 61 t.n.v. Stichting De Nieuwe Wereld. Crypto's doneren kan via https://commerce.coinbase.com/pay/79870e0f-f817-463e-bde7-a5a8cb08c09f-- Bronnen en links bij deze uitzending: Bestel hier de bundel aforismen 'Grosso Modo' van Quinten Weeterings: https://deblauwetijger.com/product/quinten-weeterings-grosso-modo/Bestel hier de editie van het Filosofie-Tijdschrift gewijd aan Emil Cioran:https://gompel-svacina.eu/product/filosofie-tijdschrift-jrg-29-nr-1-emil-cioran/Bekijk hier de uitzending van De Waanzinbar over 'Grosso Modo' van Quinten Weeterings:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSoLj22qVjgBeluister hier de podcastaflevering van Hermitix 'The Life and Philosophy of Emil Cioran with Quinten Weeterings':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUgJmRsqVfEWebsite van Ruben Endendijk: http://rubenendendijk.nl/Youtube-Kanaal van Ruben Endendijk: https://www.youtube.com/@rubenendendijkLees hier het artikel 'Een filosoof van de warmte. Over Vasili Rozanov, Roem is een slang. Solitaria' van Hans W. Bakx:https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ras001200101_01/_ras001200101_01_0005.phpLees hier een fragment uit het boek 'Donderslagen op muziek' van Georg Christoph Lichtenberg vertaald door Henk van Gelre:https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_tir001198601_01/_tir001198601_01_0070.phpLees hier het artikel 'Giacomo Leopardi en zijn Zibaldone' van Frans van Dooren:https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_maa003197601_01/_maa003197601_01_0124.phpLees hier het essay 'On the Abolition of All Political Parties' van Simone Weil:https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simone-weil-on-the-abolition-of-all-political-partiesRuben in gesprek met Thomas Crombez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPnjVNYKrAc--00:00 Introductie02:27 Wat is een aforisme? 08:32 Hoe ontstaan aforismen? 13:45 Ontwikkeling en geschiedenis van het aforisme 23:32 Aforisme en pessimisme 32:44 Persoonlijke drijfveren van Weeterings 35:38 Ad arriveert op zijn fiets in de achtertuin40:41 Het wereldbeeld van Weeterings51:04 Spirituele leegte 55:00 Ziektebeeld van de Europeaan 1:00:26 Quinten signeert zijn bundel 1:02:15 Afsluiting --De Nieuwe Wereld TV is een platform dat mensen uit verschillende disciplines bij elkaar brengt om na te denken over grote veranderingen die op komst zijn door een combinatie van snelle technologische ontwikkelingen en globalisering. Het is een initiatief van filosoof Ad Verbrugge in samenwerking met anchors Jelle van Baardewijk en Marlies Dekkers. De Nieuwe Wereld TV wordt gemaakt in samenwerking met de Filosofische School Nederland. Onze website: https://denieuwewereld.tv/ DNW heeft ook een Substack. Meld je hier aan: https://denieuwewereld.substack.com/

Lucetta Scaraffia"Dio non è così"Otto mistiche laiche del NovecentoBompiani Editorewww.bompiani.itPassaggi Festival, FanoMercoledì 25 giugno 2025, ore 19:30Lucetta Scaraffia "Dio non è così"con Laura Mandolini https://www.passaggifestival.it/scaraffia-lucetta/Otto mistiche laiche che cercano il divino fuori dalla cornice strettamente religiosa sono le protagoniste di questo libro: donne libere e coraggiose, che vogliono andare al di là dell'idea di Dio che viene loro proposta. “Dio non è così, ne sono sicura, e quindi lo cerco per conto mio,” dice Catherine Pozzi, e come lei la pensano Adrienne von Speyr, Banine, Élisabeth Behr Sigel, Romana Guarnieri, fino a Simone Weil e Chiara Lubich. In questa ricerca nutrita di consapevolezza fondano movimenti, lavorano nelle fabbriche, amano senza riserve, esercitano una professione. Dio è qui e ora, nelle piccole e grandi cose della vita, nel lavoro che facciamo e nelle relazioni che coltiviamo con pazienza e dedizione, sembrano volerci dire. Incontrarlo non è così difficile, non serve chissà quale paludamento religioso: basta attingere alla ricchezza della propria vita interiore alla ricerca di un senso del nostro esistere. Otto storie di donne che hanno sperimentato nuovi rapporti interpersonali e nuove gerarchie ispirando le chiese e la società. Un anelito alla spiritualità che è anche un percorso di emancipazione inscritto nel movimento di liberazione femminile novecentesco.Lucetta ScaraffiaStorica e giornalista, ha insegnato Storia contemporanea presso l'Università La Sapienza di Roma ed è stata professoressa alla Sorbona di Parigi. I suoi studi si sono concentrati sulla storia delle donne e sulla storia della religiosità, con particolare attenzione a quella femminile. Dal 2007 è membro del Comitato nazionale di bioetica. Nel 2017 per la sua attività di storica e di giornalista ha ricevuto dal presidente della Repubblica francese l'onorificenza di ufficiale della Legion d'onore. È stata ed è editorialista di vari quotidiani. Tra i suoi libri La fine della madre (2017), La donna cardinale (2020), Anime nere (con Anna Foa, 2021), Agnus dei (con Anna Foa e Franca Giansoldati 2022) e Atti impuri (2024).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

durée : 00:03:50 - Le Pourquoi du comment : philo - par : Frédéric Worms - Selon Simone Weil, "le vrai héros de l'Iliade, c'est la force". Mais qu'est-ce que la force ? Une puissance qui réduit l'homme à l'état de chose. Homère montre la guerre dans sa brutalité nue. Comment un poème antique parvient-il à envelopper de poésie la vérité la plus crue ? - réalisation : Louise André

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the intellectual historian Dr Robert Zaretsky chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. Known as the ‘patron saint of all outsiders', Simone Weil was one of the 20th century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. Here's what you'll discover in this episode: Why Robert Zaretsky chose the title: The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas Why Simone's ideals and philosophies are so relevant today, 80 years after her death How Robert grasped Simone's thinking and behaviour given her contradictory, paradoxical character that baffled her many biographers Why Robert crafted a hybrid of biography and philosophy Why he explored Simone's philosophies and search for truth through the prism of her life rather than crafting a traditional biography Why he structured the book around five chapters that present Simone's core philosophies How he portrayed Simone's ideas with clarity and grace, given her enigmatic character, behaviour and philosophies The literary devices he employed to craft sensitive, compelling and lyrical narrative How Robert challenged the myths surrounding Simone Weil.

Vandaag bespreken we het boek Over vrijheid van Timothy Snyder. We kregen deze Nederlandse vertaling van de uitgever Balans. Dank je wel. Wat een geweldig boek. Nadat we eerder het boek Over tierannie van Snyder lazen en hebben besproken was dit boek andere koek. Dit boek van 380 pagina's koste meer moeite om te lezen door de andere stijl, maar dat maakte het zeker geen slechter boek. Door het boek ben ik me gaan realiseren hoe belangrijk vrijheid is en wat dit inhoud voor verschillende mensen. Verder leerde ik het belangrijke verschil tussen negatieve en positieve vrijheid, vrijheid van vs vrijheid om. Hierbij erken ik dat ik zelf veel geluk heb gehad met de hoeveel vrijheid die ik mijn leven heb gekregen, door de plek waar en de tijd waarin ik ben geboren. Timonthy Snyder is hoogleraar geschiedenis aan Yale en medewerkers van het Instituut voor Menswetenschappen in Wenen. Door zijn onderzoek van Duitsland in de tweede wereldoorlog en de USSR, zijn tijd die hij verbleef in Oekranie, Polen en Rusland geeft hij interessante ervaringen uit de praktijk en vergelijkt dit regelmatig met de toestand en het effect op de VS. Hierbij komt de VS er meestal niet positief uit. Het boek is opgebouwd rondom de vijf elementen die voor Snyder cruciaal zijn voor vrijheid van de mens. Inleiding: Vrijheid Soevereiniteit Onvoorspelbaarheid Mobiliteit Feitelijkheid Solidariteit Besluit: Bestuur Voorwoord Vrijheid is niet alleen de afwezigheid van het kwade, maar de aanwezigheid van het goede. Met dit boek probeert Snyder om vrijheid te definiëren. Of we vrij zijn of wordden, hangt vooral af van de daden van anderen. soevereiniteit - aangeleerde vermogen om keuzes te maken; onvoorspelbaarheid - de kracht om natuurlijke regelmatigheden in te zetten voor persoonlijk doeleinden; mobiliteit - het vermogen om je op basis van bepaalde waarden door ruimte en tijd te bewegen; feitelijkheid - de mogelijkheid om grip te krijgen op de wereld en haar te veranderen; solidariteit - de erkenning dat iedereen recht heeft op vrijheid. Een soeverein persoon combineert zelfgekozen waarde met de buitenwereld om iets nieuws te scheppen. Denkers: Frantz Fanon, Vaclav Havel, Leszak Kolakowski, Edith Stein en Simone Weil. Inleiding: Vrijheid Het hoofdstuk begint met een verhaal over de Liberty Bell. Snyder laat zien dat vrijheid niet hetzelfde is als een overheid die zich nergens mee mag bemoeien. Het inruilen van vrijheid voor veiligheid, met meer toezicht en bewaking. Op p41 wordt oligarchische overwinning van Trump genoemd, met hulp van Poetin en geld (te weinig belasting betalen op de erfenis). Vrijheid van meningsuiting is ook positief, een persoonlijke keuze. Vrije wil is een kwestie van karakter. Soevereiniteit Het verschil tussen Leib en Körper (Edith Stein - Eerste Wereldoorlog) We vergaren zelf kennis wanneer we anderen erkennen. Politieke systemen die op gericht zijn op vrijheid om doen het beter dan die gericht zijn op vrijheid van. p60 Het lichaam zien als bron van winst (de gezondheidszorg in de VS). Stein het belang van empathie om vrij te zijn. Vrijheid begint met soevereiniteit en soevereiniteit heeft met lichamen te maken. Iedere vrije volwassene heeft als kind veelvuldig hulp gehad. Moederschap hoort bij vrijheid. Onvoorspelbaarheid Havel: onvrijheid staat gelijk aan voorspelbaarheid. Door samen te werken scheppen mensen onvoorspelbaarheid en vreugde in de wereld. Vrije mensen zijn voorspelbaar voor zichzelf, maar onvoorspelbaar voor autoriteiten en machines. Machines worden gebouwd voor waarschijnlijkheid en maken mensen onvrij. De libertariërs uit Silicon Valley houden ons een nieuwe wereld voor, om dan te zeggen dat er geen alternatieven zijn (Ai), en dat we daarmee ons leven naar een scherm hebben verplaatst. Aristoteles: wanneer we oordelen over welke waarde van toepassing is in welke situatie, dan oen we wat juist is.

This episode is me trying to figure out what it really means to belong, especially in a world that rewards performance and perfection. I talk about loneliness (the quiet kind that sneaks up on you even when you’re surrounded by people), the difference between being visible and being known, and why showing up for yourself, flaws and all, is the real act of connection. There’s some philosophy (Simone Weil, Viktor Frankl, Kierkegaard, you know… casual), some internet culture unpacking, and a Tamagotchi that desperately needs discipline in the middle of it all. If you’ve been feeling kind of off, kind of disconnected, or just want to feel a little less alone in the mess of figuring it all out: this one’s for you. Thanks for being here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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¿En qué momento empezamos a creer que descansar es fracasar? ¿Quién nos convenció de que si no rendimos al máximo cada segundo, no valemos lo suficiente? Este episodio es un llamado urgente a cuestionar esa voz interna que te exige sin compasión. Inspirado en la obra de Byung-Chul Han y reforzado con ideas de Foucault, Simone Weil, Aristóteles y Bauman, desarmamos el mito moderno que te hace creer que tu valor está atado a lo que produces. Aquí hablamos del yo neoliberal, del cansancio invisible, del síndrome de burnout, de la culpa por no estar haciendo “algo útil” todo el tiempo... y sobre todo, de cómo liberarte de esa narrativa tóxica que te explota desde adentro. No es autoayuda. Es filosofía práctica. No es motivación. Es reconfiguración mental. CTA principal Descarga GRATIS la Guía para identificar y liberar tu bloqueo energético: https://recursos.conocimientoexperto.com/guiabloqueo Mis otros espacios y recursos: Sitio web: https://conocimientoexperto.com Guías de implementación: https://conocimientoexperto.com/accede-a-las-guias YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@conocimientoexperto Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/salvadormingo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salvadormingoce Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/65J8RTsruRXBxeQElVmU0b — Salvador Mingo Creador de Conocimiento Experto Estratega en contenido, posicionamiento digital y transformación personal.

¿En qué momento empezamos a creer que descansar es fracasar? ¿Quién nos convenció de que si no rendimos al máximo cada segundo, no valemos lo suficiente? Este episodio es un llamado urgente a cuestionar esa voz interna que te exige sin compasión. Inspirado en la obra de Byung-Chul Han y reforzado con ideas de Foucault, Simone Weil, Aristóteles y Bauman, desarmamos el mito moderno que te hace creer que tu valor está atado a lo que produces. Aquí hablamos del yo neoliberal, del cansancio invisible, del síndrome de burnout, de la culpa por no estar haciendo “algo útil” todo el tiempo... y sobre todo, de cómo liberarte de esa narrativa tóxica que te explota desde adentro. No es autoayuda. Es filosofía práctica. No es motivación. Es reconfiguración mental. CTA principal Descarga GRATIS la Guía para identificar y liberar tu bloqueo energético: https://recursos.conocimientoexperto.com/guiabloqueo Mis otros espacios y recursos: Sitio web: https://conocimientoexperto.com Guías de implementación: https://conocimientoexperto.com/accede-a-las-guias YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@conocimientoexperto Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/salvadormingo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salvadormingoce Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/65J8RTsruRXBxeQElVmU0b — Salvador Mingo Creador de Conocimiento Experto Estratega en contenido, posicionamiento digital y transformación personal.Conviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/conocimiento-experto--2975003/support.

durée : 02:03:01 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Christine Goémé - En octobre 1968, la journaliste Marianne Monestier propose sur France Culture un hommage à la philosophe et militante française Simone Weil disparue en 1943 à l'âge de 34 ans. L'occasion d'évoquer ici la pensée, l'œuvre, "l'aventure christique" et la volonté du sacrifice de la philosophe. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Maurice Schumann Homme politique, résistant durant la seconde guerre mondiale, ancien porte-parole de la France Libre, ministre, journaliste; Marie-Madeleine Davy

durée : 00:30:53 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda, Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster - D'origine juive, Simone Weil témoigna d'une attirance profonde pour la religion catholique et la figure du Christ. En 1989, Marie-Christine Navarro décline une série "Simone Weil ou les métamorphoses". Dans le deuxième volet Marie-Madeleine Davy s'intéresse à la "mystique weilienne". - réalisation : Massimo Bellini, Vincent Abouchar - invités : Marie-Madeleine Davy

durée : 00:32:02 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda, Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster - Chrétienne, Simone Weil fut aussi profondément attirée par la spiritualité indienne. Dans le quatrième épisode de la série "Simone Weil ou les métamorphoses" diffusée en 1989, la sanskritiste Alyette Degrâces-Fahd étudie les rapports étroits entre la philosophe et les textes sacrés de l'hindouisme. - réalisation : Massimo Bellini, Vincent Abouchar

durée : 00:48:11 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda, Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster - Comment comprendre la pensée sociale et politique de Simone Weil ? En 1988, l'émission "Panorama" réserve deux numéros à l'intellectuelle libre et engagée. Le premier volet revient sur la formation de la philosophe, sa pensée politique et la trajectoire militante qu'elle dessina jusqu'à sa mort. - réalisation : Massimo Bellini, Vincent Abouchar - invités : Maurice Schumann Homme politique, résistant durant la seconde guerre mondiale, ancien porte-parole de la France Libre, ministre, journaliste; Roger Dadoun; Antoine Spire Journaliste et universitaire; Lionel Richard Professeur, auteur de nombreux ouvrages consacrés notamment à la littérature allemande.; Jean-Maurice de Montremy Journaliste, éditeur et écrivain; Madeleine Rebérioux

durée : 00:47:17 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda, Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster - Quels rapports entretenait Simone Weil à la religion, à la spiritualité ? En 1988, Michel Bydlowski lui consacre deux épisodes dans l'émission "Panorama" de France Culture. Dans ce deuxième numéro, écrivains et philosophes analysent en profondeur la pensée religieuse complexe de la philosophe. - réalisation : Massimo Bellini, Vincent Abouchar - invités : Maurice Schumann Homme politique, résistant durant la seconde guerre mondiale, ancien porte-parole de la France Libre, ministre, journaliste; Roger Dadoun; Antoine Spire Journaliste et universitaire; Lionel Richard Professeur, auteur de nombreux ouvrages consacrés notamment à la littérature allemande.; Jean-Maurice de Montremy Journaliste, éditeur et écrivain; Madeleine Rebérioux

durée : 00:19:28 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda, Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster - À Sète, en 1979, à l'occasion du colloque « Les refus de Simone Weil », Robert Ytier reçoit le spécialiste André Devaux Premier épisode d'une série dédiée à la philosophe, pour explorer sa pensée, ses engagements et les refus qui ont marqué sa vie. - réalisation : Massimo Bellini, Vincent Abouchar

durée : 00:19:28 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda, Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster - Nourrie par les humanités grecques et latines, Simone Weil n'en rejetait pas moins profondément Rome. Pourquoi une telle opposition ? En 1979, Robert Ytier reçoit la spécialiste Simone Fraisse dans le 6e épisode d'une série consacrée aux refus de la philosophe, pour tenter de mieux le comprendre. - réalisation : Massimo Bellini, Vincent Abouchar

durée : 01:25:23 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda, Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster - Simone Weil refusait tout exercice biographique. Se consacrer à Dieu était avant tout, pour elle, abolir le Moi. Pourtant, c'est bien de son parcours et de sa personnalité qu'il est question dans cette émission de Pierre Sipriot. Une archive diffusée pour la première fois en 1973 sur France Culture. - réalisation : Massimo Bellini, Vincent Abouchar

durée : 00:04:10 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda, Mathias Le Gargasson, Antoine Dhulster - Quelle fut l'action politique, sociale et spirituelle de Simone Weil ? Durant cette Nuit "Simone Weil, Dieu sans le dogme", Mathias Le Gargasson propose de (re)découvrir la pensée de cette philosophe mystique et militante, intellectuelle marquante du 20e siècle, disparue en 1943 à l'âge de 34 ans. - réalisation : Massimo Bellini, Vincent Abouchar

In this episode of Thinking Out Loud, Nathan & Cameron dive into a nuanced theological discussion on Ross Douthat's latest book Believe, exploring the provocative idea that religion—even in its broadest form—can serve as a legitimate and vital stepping stone toward Christianity. They examine Douthat's arguments through the lens of current cultural disinterest in organized faith, C.S. Lewis's concept of “mere Christianity,” and spiritual seekers like Simone Weil and David Foster Wallace. Is structured religion still the best place to begin a sincere search for truth in the modern age? Join them as they wrestle with these questions, challenge each other, and consider whether religion is a crutch, a catalyst, or a compass in a post-Christian world. Perfect for Christians craving thoughtful, biblically grounded commentary on contemporary spiritual issues.DONATE LINK: https://toltogether.com/donate BOOK A SPEAKER: https://toltogether.com/book-a-speakerJOIN TOL CONNECT: https://toltogether.com/tol-connect TOL Connect is an online forum where TOL listeners can continue the conversation begun on the podcast.

En La sección frases de gigantes de hoy Simone Weil, Xavier Melloni, Lao Tse, Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, nos llevan a reflexionar sobre la vida y la existencia del ser humano.Para escuchar el programa completo, escucha La Pregunta Infinita.

#E8/T3 El humanismo contra el ruido y la imposiciónLa Pregunta Infinita es aquella que ha impulsado a sabios de todos los tiempos a desafiarnos y animarnos a ser personas más libres, responsables y comprometidas con lo mejor de nosotros mismos y de nuestras comunidades.Durante más de tres años, el podcast de Espacio Mindfulness ha sido un espacio dedicado al humanismo, la filosofía y el autoconocimiento. Pero como irremediable humanista que soy, sentía la necesidad de expandir la mirada y el alcance del proyecto.En esta nueva etapa, el programa abraza con más claridad su vocación de divulgación del pensamiento que, en su esencia, construye verdaderos seres humanos.Aquí encontrarás reflexiones sobre la vida y la condición humana a partir de las ideas de grandes autores de todas las corrientes, cuentos de sabiduría atemporales, entrevistas con escritores actuales y muchas recomendaciones literarias. Bienvenidos a La Pregunta Infinita. En este programa nos preguntamos sí hay soluciones para la época tan ruiodosa en la que vivimos. Consideramos que, para responder y solucionar estas cuestiones, la filosofía y el humanismo tienen un potencial que estamos despreciando.Y lo hacemos a través de las reflexiónes de maestros y maestras como Simone Weil, Xavier Melloni,  Hannah Arendt y Friedrich Nietzsche.En la reflexión maestra descubrimos unos curiosos y misteriosos personajes del siglo IX de la tradición sufí, los Malamatiyyas.En el cuento de sabiduría viajamos hasta los Himalayas para descubrir el fruto de la sabiduría.Y acabamos con una magnífica entrevista a Carlos Javier González Serrano, comunicador, profesor de filosofía y psicología y escritor de, entre otros libros, Una filosofía de la resistencia ed: Destino. Disfrutaremos de un tiempo de compartir ideas sobre una materia que puede librarnos de la manipulación emocional en la que vivimos en nuestros días.SECCIONES DEL PROGRAMA NÚMERO 8/T3 DE LA PREGUNTA INFINITA00:00 Introducción03:19 Frases de gigantes17:50 Reflexión maestra23:00 Cuentos de sabiduría30:00 Entrevista a Carlos Javier González Serrano por su libro Una filosofía de la resistenciaPara saber más sobre mis proyectos: https://linktr.ee/tonyrhamPara escuchar mis meditaciones busca el canal: Meditaciones guiadas de Tony Rham. #Humanismo #CarlosJavierGonzalez #Psicología #Mindfulness #Filosofía #Podcast #LaPreguntaInfinita #TonyRham

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More at https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/iris-murdoch. Iris Murdoch may be best known for her works of fiction, but her philosophical contributions were equally significant. A moral realist influenced by Plato and Simone Weil, she developed theories in virtue ethics and care ethics. So what is the relationship between Murdoch's works of fiction and her philosophical writings? Why did she believe that "nothing in life is of any value except the attempt to be virtuous"? And given that, why did she think human life has no purpose? Josh and Ray explore Murdoch's life and thought with Eva-Maria Düringer from the University of Tübingen, author of "Evaluating Emotions."

Episode 189: Hosts Scott Rada and Richard Kyte delve into the ethical tension between justice and revenge, revealing how these seemingly similar concepts diverge in motives, processes and outcomes. To illustrate the contrast, Kyte draws on the symbol of Lady Justice: blindfolded, holding scales and a sword — a figure meant to represent impartiality and measured response. Revenge, by contrast, is fueled by emotion and often lacks balance or mercy. The conversation spans everything from classic Westerns to contemporary political discourse. Kyte notes that revenge has long been a powerful storytelling device, particularly in films where personal retribution collides with the rise of law and order. But the desire to get even, he warns, can also corrode trust in real-world institutions. That concern is especially visible in modern politics. Kyte points to President Donald Trump, who has made retribution a recurring theme — both on the campaign trail and in office. Using political power to settle personal scores, Kyte argues, undermines democratic norms and risks turning governance into a vendetta. Later, the episode turns toward everyday life. From workplace slights to social media feuds, revenge often masquerades as justice. But as one district attorney told Rada, victims of identical crimes may respond in vastly different ways — some seeking harsh punishment, others showing surprising compassion. Kyte cautions that vengeance rarely delivers what it promises. According to philosopher Simone Weil, Kyte said that imagined evil can seem thrilling, but real evil is often dull, painful, and empty. Instead of ruminating about harm, he urges listeners to cultivate habits of empathy, forgiveness, and moral clarity.

CW: There is some brief discussion of abusive familial relationships at several points within this episode.Two titanic figures in contemporary theory join us for two separate and strongly divergent episodes on the status of revolutionary thought in political philosophy today.Timothy Morton is one of the most outspoken and controversial voices in the discourse, someone whose impact punched hard into the artworld, defining a decade of new ecological and object-oriented aesthetics. For almost the entire 2010s and much of the 2020s it was hard to read a single exhibition text without recognizing Morton's impact.Timothy joins us for an expansive conversation that moves through Buddhism, Christianity, communism, trauma, poetry, and the question of whether “love your neighbor as yourself” might actually be a planetary-scale software instruction. Morton describes communism and Christianity as radically entangled modes of relation, both grounded in care and unknowing.We strongly recommend:Most people should already be familiar with Morton's most iconic concept and contribution: HyperobjectsTimothy's book Ecology Without Nature Their more recent Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology And we spend a lot of time talking about SpacecraftIn the episode, we also touch on the work of Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton, Thomas Merton, Raymond Williams, and Simone Weil.

Benjamin P. Davis's Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics (Edinburgh University Press 2025) provides one of the first readings, in English or French, of Édouard Glissant as an ethical theorist. What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: ‘You must choose your bearing.' Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzaldúa and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present – an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility. A sequel to the book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt, is forthcoming this year. Benjamin P. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University and a Fellow at the Center on Modernity in Transition. He is the author of Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield 2023) as well as Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics (2023) and a sequel, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025), both published by Edinburgh University Press. Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Benjamin P. Davis's Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics (Edinburgh University Press 2025) provides one of the first readings, in English or French, of Édouard Glissant as an ethical theorist. What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: ‘You must choose your bearing.' Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzaldúa and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present – an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility. A sequel to the book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt, is forthcoming this year. Benjamin P. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University and a Fellow at the Center on Modernity in Transition. He is the author of Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield 2023) as well as Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics (2023) and a sequel, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025), both published by Edinburgh University Press. Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Benjamin P. Davis's Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics (Edinburgh University Press 2025) provides one of the first readings, in English or French, of Édouard Glissant as an ethical theorist. What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in 1990 the poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant appealed directly to his readers, calling them to re-orient their lives in service of the political struggles of their time: ‘You must choose your bearing.' Informed by the prayer camps at Standing Rock, and presenting Glissant alongside Stuart Hall, Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, Enrique Dussel, Gloria Anzaldúa and W. E. B. Du Bois, this book offers an urgent ethics for the present – an ethics of risk, commitment and care that together form a new sense of decolonial responsibility. A sequel to the book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt, is forthcoming this year. Benjamin P. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University and a Fellow at the Center on Modernity in Transition. He is the author of Simone Weil's Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield 2023) as well as Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics (2023) and a sequel, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt (2025), both published by Edinburgh University Press. Tim Wyman-McCarthy is a Lecturer in the discipline of Human Rights and Associate Director of Graduate Studies at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He can be reached at tw2468@columbia.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/caribbean-studies

We discuss John's art, his dissertation, “Communication & Control”, his “Theses on Punk Rock”, and briefly his “Fifteen Suppositions”. We also discuss Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Theodor Adorno, Michael Pisaro, Jacob Taubes, Simone Weil, Georges Bataille, Sergii Bulgakov, David Bentley Hart, Jordan Daniel Wood, St. Isaac of Nineveh, Jean-Phillipe Rameau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and more.

In the first episode of our weekly Lenten series, we invite you to take a moment to slow down, quiet your heart, and hear what God may be saying to you. Throughout the season of Lent, we'll be releasing weekly episodes focused on themes of reflection, prayer, and contemplation.On March 19, 2021 we were delighted to host Christian author, leader, and teacher, Ruth Haley Barton. Barton is founding President/CEO of the Transforming Center, a ministry dedicated to strengthening the souls of Christian leaders and the congregations and organizations they serve. Ruth is the author of numerous books and resources on the spiritual life, including Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership and Sacred Rhythms. She reflects regularly on spirituality and leadership in her blog, Beyond Words, and on her podcast Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership.We hope you enjoy this conversation around her book, Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence. Our attention, Barton believes, has become a commodity that we must protect if we are to avoid being swept away by our distracted age. She invites listeners to engage in these ancient biblical practices to find the rest for our souls that Jesus promises. In this Lenten season, we hope this will inspire you to pursue God's transforming presence in new ways and contemplatively sit in solitude and silence with the Author and Perfecter of our faith. Learn more about Ruth Haley Barton. Watch the full Online Conversation and read the transcript from March 19, 2021. Related reading:A Shocking Lack of Solitude, Cherie Harder Authors and books mentioned in the conversation:Blaise PascalJohn MiltonC.S. LewisRichard RohrDallas WillardHenry NouwenShop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B. CrawfordRabbi Abraham Joshua HeschelJulian of NorwichInvitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence, by Ruth Haley Barton Related Trinity Forum Readings:Confessions | A Trinity Forum Reading by St. Augustine, introduced by James K.A. Smith.Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | A Trinity Forum Reading by Annie Dillard, introduced by Tish Harrison Warren.Devotions | A Trinity Forum Reading by John Donne, introduced and paraphrased by Philip Yancey.The Long Loneliness | A Trinity Forum Reading by Dorothy Day, introduced by Anne and David Brooks.Wrestling with God | A Trinity Forum Reading by Simone Weil, introduced by Alonzo McDonald.The Pilgrim's Progress | A Trinity Forum Reading by John Bunyan, introduced by Alonzo McDonald.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.liveWith the Gaza ceasefire possibly collapsing any minute, we return to the topic of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks and the ensuing war in the Holy Land. Specifically, Shadi Hamid and Damir Marusic discuss the tension between a belief in universal human rights, on the one hand, and allegiance to one's ethnic and religious roots, on the other. Joining Shadi and Damir is friend of the pod Peter Beinart, contributing writer for the New York Times and editor-at-large of the magazine, Jewish Currents. In recent years, Beinart has emerged as a leading Jewish voice wrestling with the moral questions surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict. His new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, describes the different ways that Jews have wrestled with the morality of the war in Gaza. Peter is an observant Orthodox Jew, and this book documents how his criticism of the war has affected (and even broken) several of his friendships in his community.Peter affirms a belief in the universality of human rights and obligations to all human beings. But, he confesses, “there's another voice inside my head: don't be naive, this is a world of power in which people either look out for their own, or nobody looks out for you.” Is it possible to reconcile these two thoughts? Shadi argues for the universalist point of view: given the high number of civilian deaths in the Gaza war, shouldn't it be obvious that our allegiance to universal values should take priority over everything else? Shouldn't we have more “sensitivity for civilian deaths”? Damir presses from the opposite, particularist perspective. He's been reading the Bible. There is, Damir says, a biblical sense for “the destiny of the Israelites to the land” of Israel. Moreover, Damir argues, even if Israel is powerful today, and even if Israel did not need to wage war on the scale that it did in Gaza, not too long ago, Israel actually was existentially threatened by its neighbors. Moreover, Iran is still a real threat today. This is a heart-wrenching, wide-ranging episode that covers several controversial topics: the parallels between the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza; whether Israel can be called an Apartheid state; how to interpret the historical books of the Bible, in particular the Book of Joshua; and much more. In our bonus section for paid subscribers, Peter and our hosts discuss why the Israeli Left is dead and why Yair Lapid supports Trump's Gaza mass expulsion plan; how liberal Americans internalize the ethnic framing of the Israel-Palestine debate; Israel's right to exist; ethnonationalism on the rise around the world; what Steve Bannon really thinks about American Jews; and how to maintain friends with whom you might have deep disagreements. Required Reading* Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Amazon).* Peter Beinart, The Beinart Notebook (Substack).* Peter Beinart, “Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return” (Jewish Currents).* October 2023 podcast episode with Peter: “Peter Beinart on Israel, Hamas, and Why Nonviolence Failed” (WoC).* July 2020 podcast episode with Peter: “Arguing the One-State Solution” (WoC).* “Lapid presents Gaza ‘day after' plan in DC, urges extended Egyptian takeover” (Times of Israel). * The Book of Joshua (Bible Hub).* David Ben-Gurion (Jewish Virtual Library).* Yeshayahu Leibowitz (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).* Micah Goodman, Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War (Amazon).* Amoz Oz, In the Land of Israel (Amazon).* Simone Weil, The Iliad, or the Poem of Force (Amazon).This post is part of our collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Governance and Markets.Free preview video:Full video for paid subscribers below:

https://youtu.be/0SSL_XThHdQ Podcast audio: A new ARI podcast series gives you a window into ARI's educational programs by showcasing our faculty as they discuss books of recent interest. The series, the ARI Bookshelf, premiered on August 6 with an episode discussing Wolfram Eilenberger's book The Visionaries. Panelists included Ben Bayer, Jason Rheins, Greg Salmieri, and Shoshana Milgram. The visionaries of the book's title are four mid-twentieth century female philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand. Through interweaving biographies of these four figures, the book aims to show, as its subtitle puts it, “the power of philosophy in dark times.” According to Ben Bayer, “this was a very interesting book to read, especially because of the kind of novelistic quality of it, where you're not just reading about their ideas, but you're seeing what's happening in their lives […] against the backdrop of some pretty dramatic geopolitical events of the period.” Among the topics covered: Panelists' general takes on the book; How Simone Weil's philosophy causes her to martyr herself; The thematic unity of the four figures; The significance of the four figures being women; The book's sloppy treatment and misrepresentation of Rand; How the book whitewashes evil; Why the book may be worth reading. The video premiered on August 6, 2024.

durée : 00:03:36 - Le Pourquoi du comment : philo - par : Frédéric Worms - Lorsqu'un pouvoir se veut absolu, il rencontre une indignation morale qui impose une limite. Loin d'être passive, la morale est un contre-pouvoir. De la sagesse antique à Foucault, en passant par Simone Weil, elle s'affirme comme une force essentielle face aux dérives. Peut-elle encore résister ? - réalisation : Riyad Cairat

We're all anxious, and none of us can pay attention. We don't read long books anymore; our kids don't read at all. When we watch TV, we scroll at the same time. And we absolutely cannot be alone with ourselves. These are the symptoms of a modern malaise that is everywhere diagnosed but rarely treated with the dire seriousness it deserves: an epochal sickness that is fundamentally changing the way we relate to each other and to our own minds. What would it take to reclaim control? Chris Hayes — journalist, author, and host of MSNBC's All In — joins to discuss his new book The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource. Together, Chris and the boys theorize how attention replaced information as the defining commodity of modern life. Along the way, we discuss our own struggles with social media addiction, prayer as an ancient technology for organizing attention, the evolutionary origins of attention-seeking, Donald Trump as the "public figure par excellence" of the attention age, and how to fight back against the corporate takeover of our minds. Toward the end, Chris explains how he's navigating hosting his cable show amid another bewildering Trump era, which seems designed to divide and fragment our attention.Further Reading: Chris Hayes, The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, (2025)Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, (1952)Adam Phillips, Attention Seeking, (2022)Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, (1844)Kyle Chayka, FIlterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, (2024)Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, (2019)Daniel Immerwahr, "What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?" The New Yorker, Jan 20, 2025....and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to all of our premium episodes! 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet George Herbert (1593-1633) who, according to the French philosopher Simone Weil, wrote ‘the most beautiful poem in the world'. Herbert gave his poems on his relationship with God to a friend, to be published after his death if they offered comfort to any 'dejected pour soul' but otherwise be burned. They became so popular across the range of Christians in the 17th Century that they were printed several times, somehow uniting those who disliked each other but found a common admiration for Herbert; Charles I read them before his execution, as did his enemies. Herbert also wrote poems prolifically and brilliantly in Latin and these he shared during his lifetime both when he worked as orator at Cambridge University and as a parish priest in Bemerton near Salisbury. He went on to influence poets from Coleridge to Heaney and, in parish churches today, congregations regularly sing his poems set to music as hymns. WithHelen Wilcox Professor Emerita of English Literature at Bangor UniversityVictoria Moul Formerly Professor of Early Modern Latin and English at UCLAndSimon Jackson Director of Music and Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of CambridgeProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list: Amy Charles, A Life of George Herbert (Cornell University Press, 1977)Thomas M. Corns, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell (Cambridge University Press, 1993) John Drury, Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert (Penguin, 2014)George Herbert (eds. John Drury and Victoria Moul), The Complete Poetry (Penguin, 2015)George Herbert (ed. Helen Wilcox), The English Poems of George Herbert (Cambridge University Press, 2007)Simon Jackson, George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2022)Gary Kuchar, George Herbert and the Mystery of the Word (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)Cristina Malcolmson, George Herbert: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)Victoria Moul, A Literary History of Latin and English Poetry: Bilingual Literary Culture in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2022)Joseph H. Summers, George Herbert: His Religion and Art (first published by Chatto and Windus, 1954; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, New York, 1981)Helen Vendler, The Poetry of George Herbert (Harvard University Press, 1975)James Boyd White, This Book of Starres: Learning to Read George Herbert (University of Michigan Press, 1995)Helen Wilcox (ed.), George Herbert. 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press, 2021) In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio production