Simone Weil
Science and Perception in Descartes
Written work
Science and Perception in Descartes
Science et perception dans Descartes
Against the idealist reading of Descartes, it argues that perception and science arise from work, from the body's methodical action on the world. It is her first extended philosophical work.
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Authorship note
Diploma thesis (1929–1930), supervised by Léon Brunschvicg; published in Sur la science (1966).
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Simone Weil
Sur la science
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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
- 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
- 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
- Wikisource en francés, «Auteur:Simone Weil» (relación de obras con fechas de redacción y publicación).
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