Written work
Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God
Réflexions sur le bon usage des études scolaires en vue de l'amour de Dieu
It argues that the value of study, even of an unsolved geometry problem, lies in its training of attention, which is the substance of prayer and of love of neighbour. It concludes that the afflicted need nothing else than people capable of giving them their attention.
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Authorship note
Written in Marseille in 1942 for the Catholic students accompanied by Fr. Perrin; collected in Attente de Dieu (1950).
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Other works by Simone Weil
- Gravity and Grace · 1947
- The Need for Roots · 1949
- Waiting for God · 1950
- Notebooks · 1951
- First and Last Notebooks (Supernatural Knowledge) · 1950
- Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression · 1934
- Oppression and Liberty · 1955
- The Worker's Condition (La Condition ouvrière) · 1951
- Factory Journal · 1935
- The Iliad, or the Poem of Force · 1940
- The Greek Source · 1953
- Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks · 1951
- Letter to a Priest · 1951
- London Writings and Last Letters · 1957
- Human Personality (The Person and the Sacred) · 1943
- On the Abolition of All Political Parties · 1943
- Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations · 1943
- Project for a Formation of Front-Line Nurses · 1940
- The Love of God and Affliction · 1942
- Forms of the Implicit Love of God · 1942
- Spiritual Autobiography · 1942
- Unordered Thoughts on the Love of God · 1962
- Lectures on Philosophy · 1959
- Science and Perception in Descartes · 1930
- On Science · 1966
- Historical and Political Writings · 1960
- Letter to Georges Bernanos · 1938
- Let Us Not Start the Trojan War Again · 1937
- Venice Saved · 1955
- Poems · 1968
- Correspondence · 1982
- Complete Works · 1988
Sources
- Weil, Simone. Attente de Dieu. Ed. Joseph-Marie Perrin. Paris: La Colombe, 1950 (incluye la «Autobiographie spirituelle», carta al P. Perrin de mayo de 1942). Texto en Wikisource.
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