Simone Weil’s Love of Neighbor

Simone Weils Waiting for God have discussed the implied retire of God through the reduplication of love and leniency as an answer or remedy for grief and as a step in able to restore justice. Simone Weil was a wealthy French political activist and philosopher who have strived to argue roughly the universal goodness of men.She maintains that the world in which we lived in is slackly composed of inequalities. In much(prenominal) case, there ar some large number who catch our circumspection while there are those other(a)wise(a)s who are practically regarded as the collective unknown. Since there was a lack of attention, otherwise of retainer and/or affinity, these bulk remained to be unidentified.She advertise argues that those pile who are with indicator acts in mechanical ways. This is because they are blindly under the conjecture or thinking that they are obligated to enact their talentiness over others in able to defend or protect themselves. They believe tha t if they do not act in such a way as imposing their power over other the great unwashed, they might end up being slaves or being objects themselves.Those who do not have power are reduced to mere items or objects who functions as property and quantities on the face of it does so because they do not have the capability to command other raft and they are viewed by those who are in power as means to their ends. This was largely reflected on wars, as soldiers are deployed in armed combat areas, those who held government power are deciding which troop would be direct first or which troop would be in this or that position.To further understand her point, she tries to demonstrate the mechanical aspect of power through the ideas of mourning and slavery. She renders that affliction is a mark of slavery it is when the soul becomes blind and numb through the mechanical violence perpetuated by power that they exist barely as intimacys. Humans primary task is to give attention to those w ho are afflicted or to those people who were possessed by power. Since other afflicted persons are hardened by the feelings and experiences that they posses, it is thence the human beings task to love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves.According to Weil, most people do not understand what the pain that the afflicted persons are feeling. It is quite a impossible for unequal things to feel equal or the alike, in such, people who are unequal cannot feel the same feeling, cannot understand the same thing that other people is experiencing. She argues that what connects everything is a link with what she renders as an outside public.She clarifies that this link can be manifested through the presence of injustice which is the vilify caused in the private sphere of an individual. Weils conception of Justice is sensual on a religious aspect of a universal agreement to remedy the damages make in any body or soul. According to Weil, the universality of this engagement is in suc h fake that disposing it would make one a criminal.Justice for Weil is reflective of compassion with the acknowledgement that there essential be no harm done to other people most specifically to our neighbors. It is through justice that those who are in power would be compassionate to those who does not posses power for they would not treat those other people merely as objects or as indifferent persons but as reflections and extensions of themselves. They would then remove the mechanical ways that follows from their possession of power for this ways would not be recognize or at least utilize.In my opinion, Weils ideas are withal idealistic, for although people may therefore love their neighbors as much as they love themselves, nonetheless, this could only happen if all would indeed subscribe to this kind of philosophical thinking. It is quite inevitable for people to dominate other things, and this is something that Weil herself recognizes, as she states that indeed inequality is something that we cannot demise. Yet she proceed on implying that humans can in some way become compassionate to other people or feel and share the pain of other people.This is simply implausible charge if she argued that there is a universal link that determines compassion as an obligation to other people, still it is deeply imbedded in human beings nature and personhood that he/she must strive for him/herself with or without the regard for other people. Her ideal morality and universal justice cannot be attained in our society and is only possible in a hypothetical estate where people may indeed recognize his/her obligation to other people.It might also work well in particular instances upon a serious contemplation and dedication to religion or to a morality that corresponds to the same ideals. For example, in instances like those done by Christ, helping other people without the regard of what will happen to yourself, is something that can indeed be treated to be an instance in support of Weils claims. However, one must not forget to take into account the fact that somehow there can be personal interest involved or such and such actions are only plausible in certain destiny and not in others. Thus, my assessment of Weils philosophy is implausible and too idealistic.Works CitedWeil, Simone. Waiting for God. New York First Perennial Classics. 2001.