Simone Weil · Philosophy
Simone Weil’s central idea - that <em>attention</em>, a patient, self-emptying openness to what is real, is the hidden substance of prayer, of study, and of the love of our neighbour, and that it is the opposite of straining the will.
You learned that Weil made attention - a receptive, self-forgetting openness, not an effort of will - the common root of study, prayer, and the love of neighbour, so that even a geometry problem trains the soul. Explain what she meant and why she opposed attention to will-power.
Leads to Plato.
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