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Simone Weil – o gândire dedicată celuilalt
Simone Weil – a thought devoted to the other

Author(s): Alexandru Medeșan
Subject(s): Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: attention; care; the other; God;

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines Simone Weil’s philosophy as an original, implicitly phenomenological project centered on attention, understood as a self-emptying openness to reality and to others. Drawing on Husserl’s phenomenological reduction, Heidegger concept of “care”, Merleau-Ponty’s operative intentionality, and Levinas’ primacy of the ethical relation, the study argues that Weil brackets not the world but the self, transforming phenomenological intentionality into an embodied, emotional, and spiritual readiness to encounter the other and God.

  • Issue Year: LXXII/2025
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 913-930
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian
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