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opinions about her?

>> No.15727124

>her

>> No.15727145
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>>15727120
Not the best Catholic jewess /lit/ waifu, tbqh

>>15727124
Tranny chasers pls go.

>> No.15727164

>>15727120
Looks cute, who is she?

>> No.15727174

>>15727164
read filename

>> No.15727196

>>15727174
Yeah, but what did she do to be here? Why is she special?

>> No.15727238

>>15727196
Not him, she's a Catholic philosopher known for her unconventional take on Platonism and her renouncing of her way of life to go live among lower-class worker.
I encourage you to read Gravity and Grace, it's like a collection of fragment, most of them about suffering and existence, in a rather existentialist fashion but suffused with deep spirituality.

>> No.15728160

Weil is a very interesting character. She is, in many ways, everything that 4chan fantasizes about in a woman: deep purity, a bit autistic, and loving.

Apparently, Simone de Beauvoir was once in the same class as Weil and remarked how Weil would break into tears any time news of famine was discussed. She was a deeply emotional, intensely loving person, almost to a fault.

I encourage anyone to read her, but also, one must recognize where she got her influences from. Frankly, she was deeply influenced by St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila, and her work, at times, reads very similarly to them. She is best read with this in mind.

>> No.15728200

>>15727120
A person whose life was full of comedically destructive (to herself and parents) LARPing who much like a chaner spent a lot of time writing about Christianity and Catholicism while not being either (unless you stretch Christianity to mean anyone who believed Jesus to be a good teacher they personally understand it )

>> No.15729965

>>15727120
Whomst

>> No.15731356

>>15727120
She's read a lot in philosophy departments here in France, but I don't know if it's a new thing or not. It was her who introduced me to philosophy when I was 16 or 17, I had picked up her collected works by accident; she's a saint; I still don't know whether what she said was any correct or valid, but the lung-purifying height at which she stands circumcised my soul. I don't know what was translated to english and not, but you shouldn't begin with La Pesanteur et la Grâce (Gravity and Grace I suppose). I recommend L'Enracinement (the third part thereof, I don't know the English title but this one must have been translated), her little text on the Iliad (this one I don't know) and L'Attente de Dieu ('Waiting for God' I guess). Disclaimer: I'm not a Christian at all.

>> No.15731365

>>15731356
Also her brother was 20th century Gauss

>> No.15731387

>>15727145
What do you recommend from Stein?

>> No.15731712

>>15731387
The Science of the Cross, Finite and Eternal Being, On Woman and the Philosophy of Humanities and Psychology are all phenomenal (pun intended).

>> No.15731866

>>15727120
fuckable with vodka

>> No.15731871

>>15727120
She's cute I'd cum in her

>> No.15732576

>>15727120
Andy Samberg?

>> No.15732858

>>15731356
>L'Enracinement
The Need for Roots in English, Echar raíces in Spanish.

>her little text on the Iliad
The Iliad, or the Poem of Force (I recommend the Holoka translation/edition).