John McDadeCorresponding author

Simone Weil and Gerard Manley Hopkins on God, Affliction, Necessity and Sacrifice

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13/1 - Spring 2008, pages 1-16
Date of online publication: 15 juin 2008
Date of publication: 01 juin 2008

Abstract

Simone Weil's ideas on affliction and sacrifice have been interpreted by some as though they are the product of psychological problems. I will approach her writings on necessity and affliction through G. M. Hopkins' little prose masterpiece. Later I will suggest that she may be profitably related to some French spiritual writers in the 17th Century, who develop a link between the necessity of offering sacrifice to God and the radical contingency of created existence.

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McDade, John. “Simone Weil and Gerard Manley Hopkins on God, Affliction, Necessity and Sacrifice.” Forum Philosophicum 13, no. 1 (2008): 1–16. doi:10.35765/forphil.2008.1301.01.

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