{"id":8255,"date":"2013-12-22T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/22\/credo-3\/"},"modified":"2013-12-22T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T12:19:15","slug":"credo-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/22\/credo-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Credo<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simone Weil's Profession of Faith<\/a> begins  as follows.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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There is a reality outside the world, that is to say, outside space and time, outside man's mental universe, outside any sphere whatsoever that is accessible to human faculties. <\/span><\/p>\n

Corresponding to this reality, at the centre of the human heart, is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another terrestrial manifestation of this reality lies in the absurd and insoluble contradictions which are always the terminus of human thought when it moves exclusively in this world. <\/span><\/p>\n

Just as the reality of this world is the sole foundation of facts, so that other reality is the sole foundation of good. <\/span><\/p>\n

That reality is the unique source of all the good that can exist in this world: that is to say, all beauty, all truth, all justice, all legitimacy, all order, and all human behaviour that is mindful of obligations. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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"At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world." <\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Those minds whose attention and love are turned towards that reality are the sole intermediary through which good can descend from there and come among men.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Simone Weil's Profession of Faith begins  as follows.  There is a reality outside the world, that is to say, outside space and time, outside man's mental universe, outside any sphere whatsoever that is accessible to human faculties. Corresponding to this reality, at the centre of the human heart, is the longing for an absolute good, … Continue reading “Credo<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[503,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credo","category-weil-simone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","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=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}