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Human Personality (The Person and the Sacred)
La Personne et le Sacré
It criticises personalism and the language of rights: what is sacred in a human being is not their person or their rights but the impersonal, the expectation of good that everyone carries within, laid bare by the cry of those who suffer injustice —'why am I being hurt?'. Only a supernatural attention can hear that cry.
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Authorship note
Written in London in 1943; published in La Table ronde (no. 36, 1950) and collected in Écrits de Londres (1957).
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Simone Weil
Écrits de Londres et dernières lettres
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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
- 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
- Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God · 1942
- 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. Écrits de Londres et dernières lettres. Paris: Gallimard (col. «Espoir»), 1957. Texto en Wikisource.
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