Simone Weil – some brief notes
Jenny Mackness,
Jenny Connected,
Jun 18, 2021
I am not familiar with Simone Weil so this is overview of her work is an introduction for me. Weil writes, "The authentic and pure values – truth, beauty and goodness – in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act." Jenny Mackness adds, "This is where we see the influence of Weil on Noddings, who wrote about the need for the one-caring to be engrossed in and fully committed to the cared-for." There is a point to that, this idea of giving yourself completely to the task, as in "dance like there's nobody watching", and I've seen it (or something like it) referenced many times.
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