/lit/ - Literature

>>16170613
>She [Simone Weil] finished first in the exam for the certificate of "General Philosophy and Logic"; Simone de Beauvoir finished second
She got BTFO'd hard by Simone Weil

Further quotes from her to make her case even more clearer, if necessary:

> The notion of rights i s linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavour, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention ; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at. (81)

> It is singularly monstrous that ancient Rome should be praised for having bequeathed to us the notion of rights. If we examine Roman law in its cradle, to see what species it belongs to, we discover that property was defined by thejus utendi et abutendi. And in fact the things which the property owner had the right to use or abuse at will were for the most part human beings. (82)

> If you say to someone who has ears to hear : 'What you are doing to me is not just', you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like ' I have the right . . . ' or 'you have no right to. . . . ' They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention. To place the notion of rights at the centre of social conflicts is to inhibit any possible impulse of charity on both sides. Relying almost exclusively on this notion, it becomes impossible to keep one's eyes on the real problem. (83)