{"id":12243,"date":"2009-11-09T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T09:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/09\/excellent-advice-on-non-violence-from-simone-weil\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T09:55:22","slug":"excellent-advice-on-non-violence-from-simone-weil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/09\/excellent-advice-on-non-violence-from-simone-weil\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Advice on Non-Violence from Simone Weil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Simone Weil, <em>Gravity and Grace<\/em>, tr. Emma Craufurd, Routledge 1995, p. 77, <em>emphasis<\/em> added.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Non-violence is no good unless it is effective. Hence the young man&#39;s question to Ghandi about his sister. The answer should have been: <em>use force unless you are such that you can defend her with as much chance of success without violence.<\/em> Unless you possess a radiance of which the energy (that is to say, the possible effectiveness in the most material sense of the word) is equal to that contained in your muscles.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">We should strive to become such that we are able to be nonviolent.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">This also depends on the adversary.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, tr. Emma Craufurd, Routledge 1995, p. 77, emphasis added. Non-violence is no good unless it is effective. Hence the young man&#39;s question to Ghandi about his sister. The answer should have been: use force unless you are such that you can defend her with as much chance of success without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/09\/excellent-advice-on-non-violence-from-simone-weil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excellent Advice on Non-Violence from Simone Weil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-weil-simone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}